Coming from the ops side and as a user, I blame a focus on abstractions away from fundamentals that lure new and old developers alike into overcomplicating stac

Coming from the ops side and as a user, I blame a focus on abstractions away from fundamentals that lure new and old developers alike into overcomplicating stacks. For example, I would say some significant percentage of both websites and electron-style apps don't need anything other than pure HTML5+CSS3. Javascript only if necessary. Not here are 5 different Javascript frameworks! Of course there are cases where a framework is applicable, but I'm talking about the vast majority of cases. Then on top of all that are 20+ javascripts advertising and spying per page and pages become unusable without a good js blocker (umatrix is my favorite). Some of this is technical and some of it is business, either way developers need to focus on the fundamentals and pushback against dark patterns. Now on the desktop side, this is also why I am a CLI junky who lives in a terminal. CLI apps don't get in the way, because most of the time you are just dealing with text anyway. There are many websites that ought to be a cli app at least via api. This is also one of my criticisms of companies trying to force people into the browser by disallowing api clients. It was the constant bloat and spying that finally spurred me to go gnu/linux only many years ago, and things are only getting better since then. It requires a change in how you do your computing, yes. It may not be easy (higher learning curve), but the rewards are worth it.