The author seems to think that most developers think the Web sucks and needs to be killed. While this may have a sliver of truth behind it —in that a lot of us

The author seems to think that most developers think the Web sucks and needs to be killed. While this may have a sliver of truth behind it —in that a lot of us are dissatisfied with certain aspects of the platform— there's one thing the author fails to address: If the Web (and Javascript) suck so badly, then what's up with all those Electron desktop apps? And all those react native/nativescript/ionic mobile apps? IMHO, the author fails to address the only reason the web is popular as an application platform: its still the only reliable way to make sure your code runs everywhere with as little effort as possible.