The browser wars are long gone, and there is no technical reason why the standards each browser added had to be complex per-use-case builtins instead of composable primitives.

In any case, that is what happened.

And now new projects like Ladybird take a decade to arrive, even with AI, because of the immense amount of stuff in the platform.

> standard that's the product of feature competition between pre-existing nonstandardized behaviors is doomed to be huge.

None of the Unixes are this bloated.