That same realization can be made with UI libraries that don't have to deal with the history and standards of modern web. The front end js libs (react, angular

That same realization can be made with UI libraries that don't have to deal with the history and standards of modern web. The front end js libs (react, angular) are a nice patchwork over a pile of mess, but do you really think that we would have the same problems making simple websites if we could design it without the standards agreements and history? Look at authoring tools of UIs outside of web and you'll find theyre much simpler, intuitive, wysiwyg, but still powerful. E.g. Unity's UI lib, even flash had something nice for it's use case. Like Hypercard was. Remember that? The web front end could be a lot better.