> Now that I'm forced to dive into it, I see that they just reinvent square wheels in a wrong ways that were polished a decades ago in regular desktop apps. Be

> Now that I'm forced to dive into it, I see that they just reinvent square wheels in a wrong ways that were polished a decades ago in regular desktop apps. Being a desktop and embedded developer myself, I share your sentiment. My personal explanation of the state of the art of web UI tech is, that there can only be wrong ways of doing it if the basic abstraction at the bottom of the stack is wrong. HTML was invented as a hyperlinked semantic document markup language with presentation largely left to the browser's interpretation. Presentation (CSS) and interaction (JS) aspects were only added (dare I say "glued") to it later, which seems like a design afterthought.