I'm both excited about cross-language but also I think the people you describe as potential beneficiaries are those most apt to suffer under the new (anti-)regime.

> And the fact that now you can program a website in a language other than Javascript (or TypeScript) is a very tangible accomplishment that people who aren't enamored with computer science can appreciate, understand, and repeat.

Industrial software dev has resulted in gross difficult minified bundles & absurdities like vdom that are hard to view-source hack. But there's pretty ok un-minifying & it's surprisingly possible to get really far, if a user wants to seize the power & do some userscripting.

And many in the webdev world have steadily been trying to push back against this rampant industrialization. HTTP2 and ESM were hopefully going to make unbundling more viable, but that's still long suffering (ex: import-maps don't work for workers, https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2), and now that the http cache doesn't work cross-site many of the possible re-use upsides are dead. Still a goal for many though. WebComponents is still a vast un-frameworking potential; in many implementations it unravels the descent into abstraction that React framework begat. Classic web devs have a lot of heart to make the web pro-user, to un-framework things, but the industrial demands are hard to re-satisfy on these better paths & so much momentum is elsewhere.

Now compare to the wasm world. We have basically pure machine code running our web in wasm. It's utterly unintelligible. There's dozens of hundred of kb libraries that languages bring in to userland just to do the language thing. I think people will have an incredibly poor time learning the web, think the worst risk wasm has is in scaring people off from view-source, from casually observing & learning anything. Wasm is god smiting the tower of Babel, is a one language breaking & being cast down & a hundred different tribes speaking their own language. So much good will come from this diversity, we'll see so many different styles & tries from so many camps, and that will be a benefit, but it will in my view be drastically harder for those "who aren't enamored with computer science can appreciate, understand, and repeat." Intelligibility is the loser, when Babel falls.