We have great base tech on the web because people loved it when it was part of a trendy js framework, and wanted it in the base platform. If the web wasn’t so

We have great base tech on the web because people loved it when it was part of a trendy js framework, and wanted it in the base platform. If the web wasn’t so amenable to frameworks & polyfills HTML wouldn’t have gained all the nice things in HTML5. We can be grateful for the explosion of ideas & the standards process that (mostly) keeps the best ones.