I did read the article. It is not a balanced piece. The title is “You might want to build your webapp in canvas instead”. Almost the entire article - basically

I did read the article. It is not a balanced piece. The title is “You might want to build your webapp in canvas instead”. Almost the entire article - basically everything except for that paragraph - is talking about canvas rendering. About when and why it might be better. There is nowhere near enough discussion of the downsides. If you read this article you could walk away thinking Google docs is implemented entirely on top of the canvas API. This couldn’t be further from the truth. There are a lot of comments in this thread excited by the idea of turning my web browser into a dumb frame buffer for someone’s home grown, laggy, half baked UI framework that cannot function on par with the DOM for hard technical reasons. I don't want to run software like that.