I've said the same, but you just know somebody comes along and says "If we render our entire site into a <canvas> it'll make ad blocking more difficult," and then poof there goes the last 20 years of work on accessibility.
If I understood properly: yes, I do share the bitterness.
<troll> Look at us introduce this great new lang! It will potentially get rid of 99.99% of the current web developers and prevent any future script kiddies from getting in the game!
Behold the speed of our sealed box environment little jimmy!
Stay tuned for next weeks episode of Tech%20Elitism where we cover DRM for the web and public discourse policing!
They can also do server side ads and make the url indistinguishable from another image asset. They haven't, so it isn't 'dire' enough yet.
But writing third-party search engines will become even more impossible.
Even Google’s OCR utility can’t reliably detect German Umlaute in fancy fonts.