> not these "progressive web app" monstrosities And these progressive monstrosities came from somebody's attempt to "simplify" things down to where somebody wh

> not these "progressive web app" monstrosities And these progressive monstrosities came from somebody's attempt to "simplify" things down to where somebody who didn't actually understand what they were doing could produce something that was usable. > resist from scratching that intellectual itch...prototypeJS to jQuery See, I don't think that in most cases this comes from developers, but rather from non-technical (or worse, formerly technical) managers who read somewhere that "this new jQuery thing makes app development get done really fast". At the end of the day, the only thing that ever matters, the only thing anybody ever measures, and the only thing anybody ever remembers is "meeting the date".