I'm kind of taking the bait in your message. but just saying things like: > let's be honest, web devs are among the least educated, least sophisticated, most e

I'm kind of taking the bait in your message. but just saying things like: > let's be honest, web devs are among the least educated, least sophisticated, most entitled is just plain wrong and unnecessarily outrageous. There is a huge pool of front-end web developers when compared to other "specializations" and many person coming to it from other professions, so I guess you could easily have a poor experience with some if you're unlucky, yet I both work with JS-people and C++-people and I cannot really say that one is less "educated" or even less "sophisticated" (whatever that means) than the other. For sure, front-end devs are often less interested by the lower level technical details of a platform but they know how to code a maintainable and readable application with a complex state and a complex often-changing business logic and are even for the most part not afraid to learn another language, e.g. for personal projects: in my close colleagues some worked with elixir, another switched to go, I enjoy C++ and Rust... At least in the bigger companies I worked with, JS and C++ devs also went to the same schools, they just had different interests in programming. --- As for the "this plays directly into Google's interests" part, sure, I agree with that sentence. But even considering this, I and most people I know would agree that launching a web application leads to much less friction than running a native app: nothing to install/uninstall, easy interoperability with other websites, easy to share a given page with others, easy to copy/paste anything, automatic plugin support and it's also easier to modify and update features through user scripts... I know this is not the more popular opinion here but I personally am happy for this continued push towards the web platform, even if does not come from pure intentions.