But at the end of the day aren't all platforms complicated. It's been a while since I did GUI programming on the desktop, but I remember it being so complex to

But at the end of the day aren't all platforms complicated. It's been a while since I did GUI programming on the desktop, but I remember it being so complex to build cross-platform applications that rolling your own cross-platform abstraction would be downright ludicrous. I think the parent commenters point is correct. People treat the web like it should be easy, like it should just be HTML, but its not. It's full of legacy stuff, it requires working on multiple "platforms" (browsers), it runs on all kinds of device sizes and shapes, and the applications being written for it are no longer trivial.