I agree with you, but there are those of us who push for putting everything behind the same origin and we succeed in that because most people are aware of how p

I agree with you, but there are those of us who push for putting everything behind the same origin and we succeed in that because most people are aware of how painful CORS is. So, in some ways, CORS being so painful is actually helping (tongue-in-cheek, but it has some truth to it).