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I think it’s due to the lighter gauge strings. On my electric the smallest string is 0.0095″ in diameter, on my acoustic it’s 0.013″.

The string company Stringjoy has a tension calculator: https://tension.stringjoy.com/

You can play with the numbers, but on my acoustic the tension of the high E string is about 30 pounds and on my electric it’s about 16 pounds.

Less tension makes a string easier to fret and easier to bend. I think that’s why the barre chords are so much easier on the electrics…