> What changed is that a lot of developers today don't care about the open nature of the web and are perfectly fine with sacrificing it for faster load times of

> What changed is that a lot of developers today don't care about the open nature of the web and are perfectly fine with sacrificing it for faster load times of their JS-saturated websites. I'm one of those developers who couldn't care less about the 'open nature of the web'. I understood the necessity of it to the early, emerging internet, but times have changed. Now that we have secure sandboxes and the web is choking on its own bloat, it's time to shift back to binary blobs.