I would 100% be in favour of an alternative to the DOM designed specifically for building rich application UIs. With upcoming features like portals it could eve

I would 100% be in favour of an alternative to the DOM designed specifically for building rich application UIs. With upcoming features like portals it could even be embedded within existing HTML documents, or vice versa. I’ve griped about this before, but I firmly believe that the trope of JavaScript developers needing a million dependencies and constantly reinventing the wheel stems from the fact that you have to do every damn thing yourself (else install a package or 50). The platform provides almost nothing (except, of course, the most remarkable distribution platform we’ve ever seen). The amount of hoops we all jump through to make building web app UIs tolerable is insane. Want a filterable select that doesn’t make you type the first exact n characters really fast to find what you’re looking for? Gotta build it yourself. Hope you remembered to make it accessible and responsive! There isn’t even an in-built option for pop-out menus, a feature of GUIs as old as GUIs themselves. At the end of day the web is now as much an application platform as it is a hypermedia platform. We need better tools.