Hell No! > so that the way you interact with the world is something you have control of. You have much more control interacting with the web through a browser

Hell No! > so that the way you interact with the world is something you have control of. You have much more control interacting with the web through a browser than any random app. You can view source code and data, disable JS, styles, or images, run bookmarklets, extensions, and user styles to modify pages, and do other stuff that *no* apps match. > Who would knowingly have code downloaded to your machine which then opens connections to some unnamed IP address? Don't most desktop and mobile apps do this also? At least with a browser you can open the networks tab and see exactly what URLs are hit. > Bookmarks, seriously Bookmarks are fine mostly. And there's plenty of other ways to save URLs. > The OS independent display architecture that is (supposed to be) HTML is tolerable I think it's bloody amazing we now have a viable OS-neutral way to distribute and view documents and apps. As a developer I find web tech pretty straightforward, though the JS ecosystem has become a bit crazy. I think it will all work out in the end though. > (I am a typography snob and hate how web pages look) Well change it. Unlike apps, you can change the way web pages look. You can delete parts of pages, change the layout, fonts and colors.