You know the only thing worse than a mobile website? A website that demands that you download and install their execrable app.
The desktop version still seems better for browsing an article on my recent 5“ budget mobile.
I'd say we are basically risking various UI wars that may continue indefinitely by moving the goal posts for the brief gap that mobile simply wasn't good enough at presenting minimum desktop..
Two thoughts immediately sprang to my mind:
1) You are really smart to speak that many languages.
2) You are an exceptionally rare user.
Many people even in the US speak two or more languages. English and Spanish/Chinese/Arabic/who knows. And then Europe?
But I wasn't really saying my use case was common only showing it as another example where choices made to reduce UI and thereby improve some use cases must hurt others. That kind of mobile site should have a short life as mobile comes up to the bear minimum of 1990s utility as long as we don't give mobile UI a life of it's own with silly nonsense like bottom menu's for the lazy phablet user..
Making the screen shrink for input is the vendors problem. Wanting phablet users to be the priority users of all UIs is the pony we don't give them now that mobile is all grown up and we can ignore their tantrums.