(P)NaCl was introduced to replace NPAPI, at a time when the majority of rich web interaction still happened through plugins. I'm glad to see it killed off, and

(P)NaCl was introduced to replace NPAPI, at a time when the majority of rich web interaction still happened through plugins. I'm glad to see it killed off, and have been expecting it for a few years now. JS/asm and (hopefully soon) WebAssembly have supplanted many of its features and benefits. Still, this doesn't strike me as anti-open web. Google offered a solution when one was needed - it didn't gain traction, so they eventually retired it.