There are billions of dollars made annually that depend on the web being a complicated clusterfuck of spaghetti. It's all about tracking and targeted advertisin

There are billions of dollars made annually that depend on the web being a complicated clusterfuck of spaghetti. It's all about tracking and targeted advertising that wouldn't be possible if a random website couldn't indirectly load a script that indirectly loads a script that loads an image that indirectly drops cookies from a thousand different domains based on a hundred things just sniffed from your browser and the current marketing efforts of thousands of companies bidding for impressions or clicks or whatever. My pet theory is that commercial politicking is at the heart of everything wrong with the web. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla basically sabotaging initiative after initiative for decades trying to fuck each other over in the short term and long term. Like why didn't xhtml catch on, why did IE never support xpath, where did flash go, what happened to silverlight, there are hundreds of "how did we get here?" stories. And I imagine for every minor decision that had far reaching repercussions on web development there was a highly strategic debate at each respective company with high level executives weighing in on technical subjects they had no business weighing in on with shit like "if we support this simple protocol we risk losing our control over this other simple protocol". Basically a bunch of cut throat executives playing statecraft with their browsers.