I wouldn't be so harsh; this was a self-directed learning project as part of a 12-week educational course. And they totally managed to get it working, which is

I wouldn't be so harsh; this was a self-directed learning project as part of a 12-week educational course. And they totally managed to get it working, which is no small feat given that WebAssembly only hit v1 a few months prior, and the tooling is still rather rough.