> And it s not like new affordances are being added to pages , it's mostly aesthetics I agree on the point of websites getting slower, but not on that it doesn

> And it s not like new affordances are being added to pages , it's mostly aesthetics I agree on the point of websites getting slower, but not on that it doesn't add value. Website nowadays replace a lot of what would've been desktop applications ten years ago (see Dropbox, Slack, Google Docs, ...). It's not perfect, of course, - a lot of data now lies on PCs owned by somebody else - but skipping the installation/deinstallation part easily while also knowing that the app only has limited access to my PC is absolutely awesome.