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Because the web browser was burdened with the role of application host, and not just presentation of static content. There's no going backwards.

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this is why the web stack feels like a car held together with duct tape these days. we collectively took the wrong fork in the road and doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down. computing in general is glorious when i feel like im working near computing and then i get to web app stuff and im like.. i dunno. sad. i get why we ended up where we did with web stacks but seriously what a nightmare

It's not a nightmare. It's the most popular gui/document/app platform for a reason. It's complex because it has to cater to many types of usecases. Name one platform that's better. I think people have tried and some might have even succeeded in limited slice of what web can do.

I have strong suspicion that it's exactly because of the “document” history why web is so approachable to creators, why there is “view source” and ultimately why you can hop from simple html blog, to CRUD app, to advanced CAD software.

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