I think the main problem with that, coming from someone who has been programming on the web since around 2001, is that many of the attempts to 'fix' the web as

I think the main problem with that, coming from someone who has been programming on the web since around 2001, is that many of the attempts to 'fix' the web as an 'application platform' seem to come in very Enterprise Java costumes. Hundreds of files of abstraction and encapsulation, layers of indirection, tonnes of new nomenclature... and all without any obvious reason other than "that's what works for desktop applications" I think? Angular 1.x is the example I'm most familiar with (primarily because it was JS and 'easy' for the first 1000 lines), where most of StackOverflow was occupied with the "factory vs service vs provider" question.