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Web 2.0 was like 15 years ago now. Web 2.0 was "supposed" to be about separation of style & content and gracefully degrading JavaScript.

I don't know want to call what we have now.

Probably the "Web App" or "Web SPA" era, since everything seems to need to be a single page app that exists mostly in the client.

There are some benefits, of course. Stable and standardized UI is finally available as a baseline for devs (much like early Windows/iOS software) and all roads are clearly leading toward a unified design model for phone apps/web/desktop. Bloat and needless complexity are the biggest issues at the moment, but all the frameworks seem to be (finally) focusing on becoming more snappy.

Webasm doesn't enable anything new that couldn't already be done right now.

but it will improve the ability to obfuscate webpages

I'd probably rather sift through a disassembler than obfuscated JS.

I was replying to someone saying that webasm will bring flash style webpages.

got to get the fuck out of the industry professionally at this point