"Most web apps dont have pretenses of being simple. They want to use tools that have room for growth, that have deep capabilities." No, that's completely false

"Most web apps dont have pretenses of being simple. They want to use tools that have room for growth, that have deep capabilities." No, that's completely false. Most web "apps" are just text and images, and would better be thought of as documents, which after all is what the web is for. Re-inventing that out of massive piles of JS is strictly worse than what we already had, and in fact still have if only we would choose to use it. Yeah, sure, there are definitely real app-y things on the web, and here on HN we're biased towards those as mental reference points because they're cutting edge and exciting. But those things are emphatically NOT "most" of what the web is.