Mobile is “not just like desktop” unless you’re using a cross platform framework and even then you have different constraints - unreliable network connections, different screen sizes and interactions, you have to be more mindful of power and memory usage, dealing with app stores and review processes, etc.
But its really not hard to look at job boards or where the money is going both from internal and external investments to see which cart to tie your horse to. It definitely is not the desktop.
Even Microsoft isn’t really focusing on desktop development and has put .Net Framework in maintenance mode.
What's your point? Just like "front end development" implies "web development" to most people, "desktop development" implies "development that is not web, Android, or iOS".
But its really not hard to look at job boards or where the money is going both from internal and external investments to see which cart to tie your horse to. It definitely is not the desktop.
Even Microsoft isn’t really focusing on desktop development and has put .Net Framework in maintenance mode.