"requiring web devs to ignore the last 4~5 years of progress is just unacceptable." But this it not for "web devs", but for general UI development on desktops.

"requiring web devs to ignore the last 4~5 years of progress is just unacceptable." But this it not for "web devs", but for general UI development on desktops. Given some conventions there are decades old 4-5 years does not sound very ancient in comparison. And for desktop you probably want to trade bleeding edge hotness for tested and tried methods anyway. 4-5 years on desktop is a very brief span of time.