It's more like the other way around. Veteran web devs are stockholm-syndromed into thinking the web should always work how it used to work, they tend to think a

It's more like the other way around. Veteran web devs are stockholm-syndromed into thinking the web should always work how it used to work, they tend to think about the web as some sort of sacred internet document. Most devs these days view it as just another medium for apps, and if you look at the web from the app developer point of view, this is completely normal. Is it broken in many ways, absolutely? But not because it's not now the web used to work, as it was also broken/insufficient for modern needs. There is an entire other discussion about how to keep the web as "information superhighway" (as opposed to an app medium) and accessible. I am sympathetic to that cause, but I think we should create new web standards for that. As it stands, the html/css/js trio is doing too many things and sucks at all of them.