You also have less control over the application. It can spy on you and change out from under you. Information, media, and entertainment were always available,

You also have less control over the application. It can spy on you and change out from under you. Information, media, and entertainment were always available, but in a form where you actually own it, not pay for N subscription services before their license runs out. That said: best of both worlds imo is fat client, traditional applications that run in a web runtime (e.g., Electron) since you can run 'em on any OS. ;p