My point is that we could ship bytecode long before browser were even invented, therefore I doubt that the explosion of complexity is caused by us trying to sol

My point is that we could ship bytecode long before browser were even invented, therefore I doubt that the explosion of complexity is caused by us trying to solve that problem. This is easy to test: we just have to wait until we can ship byte code through the browser, and see how long it takes for another layer of abstraction missing some important feature to pop up on top of it.