I think Microsoft Access has a lot in common with Javascript. Both are Lovecraftian horrors that no sane person would (clean-sheet) design in their current for

I think Microsoft Access has a lot in common with Javascript. Both are Lovecraftian horrors that no sane person would (clean-sheet) design in their current form. Both derive their ubiquity from having been the only or nearly the only option in their domain. Javascript being the only way to write web-native programs and already there in the browser, and Access being the only database available to users without admin rights on their computers and already there in the Microsoft Office suite. Both are tragedies of opportunity cost for the history of computing by pre-empting or delaying the emergence of any replacement built on superior technical foundations.