I don’t think it’s going away. A better question might be why are browsers still so slow that it can actually be slowed down by pictures and dom elements trigge

I don’t think it’s going away. A better question might be why are browsers still so slow that it can actually be slowed down by pictures and dom elements triggering re-layouts, or scrollling, or animations? Maybe let’s just give up on browser apis and start building websites with DirectX/OpenGL. I’ve seen amazing UIs in a lot of pc games that do all sorts of interesting things with the UI, and I’ve rarely seen those UIs have jank, or stutter.