Why Web Apps Disappoint Me

>HTML is a language to mark up documents.

That train has left the station over a decade ago.

>Now that you know what kind of thing HTML is, you probably have a feel for what kind of thing the web was meant to do. That's one reason HTML based web apps will not be a decent replacement for real applications.

They have been good enough for people to adopt them over desktop apps for tons of things.

>There's a more fundamental reason: it increases the work you have to do on the technology stack involved. When you make web applications, you are essentially pretending the web browser is an operating system.

We've been increasing abstraction and doing the same thing at various levels ever since we invented computers.