After 30 years, isn’t it weird that the conversation is still about whether building a browser is profitable or if users are willing to pay for one? One would

After 30 years, isn’t it weird that the conversation is still about whether building a browser is profitable or if users are willing to pay for one? One would think that the technology would be so mature and ubiquitous that this is not a major issue 30 years later. If the core technology is still changing so fast that browsers need to be in constant development for the entire duration of their useful lifespan, maybe that is the problem, and the web is just doomed to be a shit show until corporations are distracted by enshittification of alternative platforms like VR. It’s just weird that a few hobbyists can generally throw together a database in a weekend, fork kubernetes and probably run with it forever if they really wanted to, create a free operating system that takes over the world, etc. And yet for browsers, we’re shaking our heads and saying the situation is impossible, we kind of always have done this, and it looks like we always will.