My hope with HTML5 was that complexity would be removed in the standard; reduce the platform to smaller generic components. Instead we have this ever-expanding

My hope with HTML5 was that complexity would be removed in the standard; reduce the platform to smaller generic components. Instead we have this ever-expanding feature set, a constant stream of new standards that have to be implemented. It's death by complexity. This plays in the hands of Google; each new feature is another opportunity to fingerprint the user. If things continue like that, a new platform will have to emerge to replace the web.