> It was a huge hurdle just to do pretty much anything beyond display text documents Like what? The trend I see in practice is that most web applications are

> It was a huge hurdle just to do pretty much anything beyond display text documents Like what? The trend I see in practice is that most web applications are still 98% text documents with images, but a combination of modern design patterns and tooling makes generating those documents insanely complicated. Currently I'm watching a project to "modernize" a bunch of small websites. The amount of effort it takes to convert them to some "familiar" (Bootstrap-like) UI is cringe-worthy.