Part of the problem is that the browser itself floats on the underlying operating system. I've been reading "The Art of Science and Engineering" by Hamming. He

Part of the problem is that the browser itself floats on the underlying operating system. I've been reading "The Art of Science and Engineering" by Hamming. He talks at length of how the history of computing is the history of moving up the stack, usually by tooth and nail. I suspect there will be a day soon where HTML and HTTP will be a thing of the past, like how embedded engineering seems to have not caught much interest among my generation. We will have to wait and see.