Ex-Turbo Vision user here .. I continue to be disappointed by modern GUI technologies, by comparison. Every time I pick up some React tutorial, it makes me sad

Ex-Turbo Vision user here .. I continue to be disappointed by modern GUI technologies, by comparison. Every time I pick up some React tutorial, it makes me sad as hell that we've come so far, and yet have to deal with such errant crap as React and the Web itself as a whole. Its gotten so bad that I feel strongly about killing the browser-based ideology and just returning to native clients for everything .. I mean, its really not an easy decision to "do the whole GUI in Web", even though by now it should be. It just seems like such a mess by comparison with where we should be by now, given the work done decades ago ..