The browser duopoly. Google and Apple control the Web through Chrome and Safari. Apple doesn't really care about the web as much as its native apps and is usua

The browser duopoly. Google and Apple control the Web through Chrome and Safari. Apple doesn't really care about the web as much as its native apps and is usually very slow to implement any new web features. They don't want the web to win because that means they lose 30% app store revenue. Google is too lost and leaderless to take big risks. They want to just keep milking the ad dollars as long as they can. Chrome changes are more about increasing ad revenue (eg manifest V3) than making the stack better. Neither company is incentivized to make the web better. Microsoft tried many times (activeX, asp, .net, clickonce, etc.) and failed because people don't trust them with their "embrace extend extinguish" history. Firefox is a has-been rounding error at this point. There's nobody else to champion a better web and break the network effect stranglehold of Chrome and Safari. The only major innovation we see in the web space are from Cloudflare and Vercel, but they work on and around the existing web stack rather than reinventing it altogether.