"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" At that point, maybe stop fighting with service workers

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" At that point, maybe stop fighting with service workers and simply use a framework like Vue. It allows html templates to be swapped in, in much the same way. Except you can actually debug it and store in localStorage if you desire.