Really, it's nicer to have a very-lightweight one if you do have to live in it. The #1 feature I've wanted in Jira and Asana is the ability to have links open

Really, it's nicer to have a very-lightweight one if you do have to live in it. The #1 feature I've wanted in Jira and Asana is the ability to have links open in a plain-HTML version that comes up almost instantly, but is read-only (or at has very limited write capabilities) and has a link at the top for the full-fat version. I hate clicking a link to one of those and waiting several seconds for it to load, then feeling like I can't leave their stupid tab open because it's eating 500MB of memory—which just means I cold-start their "app" even more often, so more waiting. I also don't like browsing issues in an "app" where any mis-click or accidental drag action might do god-knows-what even if it didn't land on something obviously interactive, and could even go unnoticed so I don't even realize I need to try to undo something. I get that I'm not going to win any arguments that these things shouldn't be so enormous to begin with (they really, really shouldn't though) but I hold out a small amount of hope "lightweight links as an opt-in feature" might catch on.