I think it's good that HTML serves a narrow purpose. What's problematic is that we want every other purpose to be served by just one or two things (CSS, JS). It

I think it's good that HTML serves a narrow purpose. What's problematic is that we want every other purpose to be served by just one or two things (CSS, JS). It shouldn't be a struggle to differentiate between "script that makes buttons work" and "script that browses cat videos and downloads them to your hard drive". We can call it "minJS" and "maxJS" or something, and make it so users can disable "maxJS" without disabling "minJS". Or wait, why even mandate JS at that point? The biggest problem with the Web is not particular design decisions (although of course they have many problems), but the fact that we won't change them fundamentally and instead just keep piling things on.