The web gained traction as a development platform because for the most part, it broadly works the same on every device due to the web standards, and so it's ver

The web gained traction as a development platform because for the most part, it broadly works the same on every device due to the web standards, and so it's very easy to develop something that works consistently on all the different devices. Purists may bemoan that things no longer respect the "native look and feel" but that is a feature, not a bug, for the vast majority of users and developers. As an example, I absolutely hate that my work email on Outlook does not have the same feature set on Windows vs Mac vs whatever, and even in scenarios where application developers want to deliver the same features everywhere the minutiae of the native development patterns make it like herding cats. It is basically the electrical plug of our era, in that it is a means to an end, never mind if 110V 60Hz is necessarily the most efficient way to deliver power in the home in North America.