I think you're right, but I'm not sure about "easy to use". It's only easy to use because everybody uses it, so as you point out there's a massive talent pool a

I think you're right, but I'm not sure about "easy to use". It's only easy to use because everybody uses it, so as you point out there's a massive talent pool and massive resources. As somebody who only started developing for the web a few years ago after a long time working with Qt, winforms, GTK and other "old school" native toolkits, I really don't find the web superior in terms of simplicity outside maybe of a few niches. You end up having to resort to dozens of external libraries to emulate the base functionality of something like Qt. And unless you want to go the transpiler way (which, admittedly, is incredibly common these days) you have to do it all is Javascript which is easy to pick up but a pretty huge liability in the long run IMO. It's just not a very good language, even if you stick to "the good parts".