My boots are pretty dusty too, and a web browser isn’t usually how I usually want to engage with a tool or toy. But the systems architecture model of infinitel

My boots are pretty dusty too, and a web browser isn’t usually how I usually want to engage with a tool or toy. But the systems architecture model of infinitely beefy backends with simply-adequate thin clients predates both of us. Browsers, the cloud, and all this obnoxious javascript tooling are the contemporary implementation of that and not without reason. They do it pretty well! Like with any new tool, people get carried away and start using it for things that really don’t need it. I’m with you that most websites don’t need all this stuff and get caught up in it anyway. But that’ll burn off, and in the meantime, we’ll end up with a rich, mature thin client system for the solutions that need it and that system will be around for decades. No sharks jumped.