This question assumes in the reader a shared understanding and acceptance for what "a website" means and should be. Really, the question is asking, "don't you t

This question assumes in the reader a shared understanding and acceptance for what "a website" means and should be. Really, the question is asking, "don't you think the Web should be limited to documents, that apps should be left to app stores?" I think the Web is, long-term, the only equitable application deployment system. We've seen plenty of examples of the walled garden ecosystems using their control to shut down free speech and criticism. We need a Free, Open Web, one that is as accesible as possible. JavaScript being the only language that runs natively in the browser means that these applications must have JS that works. The flip side of the coin on a completely open system is that you have to take the bad with the good. That some people are bad developers and make a blog platform into an app or don't have a non-app message for why their game or map rendering engine is not working it's beside the point. People do bad work with every tool. But for some reason, when it's bad from the app store, we blame the developers, but when it's bad in the browser, we blame JS and browser vendors. I think we are ultimately all doing the best we can. I'd rather a world where people can make mistakes than one that requires permission to release software.