It may be sad to see the web grow well beyond it's original scope of a web of documents, but at the same time, consider the alternative: without a solid standar

It may be sad to see the web grow well beyond it's original scope of a web of documents, but at the same time, consider the alternative: without a solid standardized execution format, that ground would likely be permanently ceded as being under the guise of the existing native players. We all can see where the native vendors are headed: it seems likely in 10 years, you will not be able to distribute binaries to users of mainstream native operating systems without going through a centralized approval process by those vendors. Apple set the ball in motion with the App Store a decade ago, and we're well on our way towards seeing the end result as it creeps into our 'legacy' PC operating systems. The core dynamic of the web, more than document sharing, has been decentralization and removing lock-in and gatekeepers around content distributed through the Internet. As long as we continue to feel that is true (which becomes less believable as browser diversity declines) I feel we should be excited every time the web expands the scope of what can be done with it. It seems likely that 100 years from now, WASM will still exist, and it will allow people to create and distribute software without gatekeepers. If it never existed, or nothing like it did, it seems like the future would have been markedly worse for creators. Each of these enabling browser technologies that get into the standards should be heralded as having potentially massive positive counterfactual effects on our ancestors and future selves (WebXR being another notable example, landing soon.)