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Or, maybe downloading arbitrary code from the internet without even a same-origin check, and being able to dynamically construct executable JavaScript from downloaded binary data masked as image and then have a whole generation of developers depend on this model wasn't so good an idea after all.

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It enables SaaS and makes economic sense and sadly the latter is the only thing that matters when it comes to mass human behaviour.

Makes economic sense for cloud providers that is. For users, developers, content creators, and all others, not so much.

eval() has no economic purpose. It hasn't been removed by browsers purely because that would break backward compatibility.

Non-same origin Javascript does not have economic purpose either. I believe, that it will be completely eradicated from browsers within this century (if not in couple of decades).

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