> I think this is it more than anything. People wanted to make the web complicated because it made them feel cooler developing it. That is patently false. Wha

> I think this is it more than anything. People wanted to make the web complicated because it made them feel cooler developing it. That is patently false. What happened is product managers wanted their websites to feel cooler to their customers, and work more like native apps. Developers then respond to the requests from the product managers. For example, charts that refresh data without a page reload when you click a button. The requirements get more and more complex, and the web was never meant to be an application platform. So you end up with what we have today.