>I recently built [a simple app built on a platform for building simple apps] in the fraction of the time it would take me just to setup a webapp

Ok, sure

>It's pretty impressive and goes to show how badly setup the web is for apps

That conclusion really doesn't seem to follow for me. Someone else wrote a library that does all of the setup work, and then you didn't have to do that work, so you concluded that something else wasn't well set up?