What's the business case, for them or for developers? Ideas aside, the web app future belongs to those with the resources to sustain a response, or those who c

What's the business case, for them or for developers? Ideas aside, the web app future belongs to those with the resources to sustain a response, or those who can restore the ability to capture/monetize developers and users in a closed system. The scope of web apps is broad enough that many technologies arguably have their place. The open javascript ecosystem reduced the cost of creating candidates, but has no real mechanism to declare winners for the purpose of consolidating users, i.e., access to resources. Careers and companies are built on navigating this complexity, but no one really has the incentive to reduce it unless they can capture that value. I really appreciate Cloudflare because they are open about both their technology and their business model. They thus offer a reasonable guarantee that they can sustain their service and their technology, without basing that guarantee on the fact that they are a biggie like AWS, Microsoft, or Google (i.e., eating their own dog food, so we can join them at the trough). The biggest cost in IT is not development or operating fees but reliance and opportunity.