Get over it, we cant have normal web things. These were invented for an earlier, innocent, more generous era. The idea of hyperlinks was that the world will se

Get over it, we cant have normal web things. These were invented for an earlier, innocent, more generous era. The idea of hyperlinks was that the world will self-organise all its information by connecting resources across the WWW. A noble, idealistic vision for the role of computing. Thats not how it worked out. There is now a self-appointed organizer of all the world's information and a few addictive walled gardens that want you to never follow any outside link. Software technologies adjust to serve business models. The SPA-fication of websites is part of that process. An existing, widely available stack (WWW browsers, web servers etc) is repurposed selectively to meet altermative objectives. Anything not serving business needs will sooner or later be deprecated. While various niche protest movements exist, they are really fancyfull, escapist, even elitist affairs. Who knows, the economics of how we organize the world's information may change yet again (LLMs say hi), bringing yet new tech approaches but i) dont bet on it and ii) the new pattern might be even worse Positive scenarios do exist, eg Web 3 as the fediverse but they will float on sink on the back of their business models.