> Because of the monopoly created by the insurmountable task of building a competitive alternative And if you go for a competitive alternative based on a more

> Because of the monopoly created by the insurmountable task of building a competitive alternative And if you go for a competitive alternative based on a more sane stack than HTML/CSS/JS/..., then you cannot compete with the content. Unless your new tech stack is really really really really better for current usage. It probably means designing it for mobile first: small footprint, low energy consumption and a lot of resilience wrt to network hiccups. Plus an integrated monetization scheme that doesn't waste half of the bandwidth for ads or half the battery capacity to try to circumvent ad blockers - all that without selling the color of the user's pants to anyone wanting to buy it. I know, utopia, utopia.