Again, you can say the same about native apps and userland. It sounds like you just don't like the way the Web APIs have expanded in scope over the last 20 year

Again, you can say the same about native apps and userland. It sounds like you just don't like the way the Web APIs have expanded in scope over the last 20 years or so. This is the better future. It used to be so much uglier in the era of flash, activex, etc. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API Oh and by the way the screen brightness probably can be adjusted using the USB APIs if someone bothered to port over drivers for the most common keyboards. At least all major browsers alert the user to choose if the web app can use these APIs unlike native apps.