Sure, I didn't mean to suggest that the government should not provide any front end at all. After all outputting a simple HTML page with the same data in additi

Sure, I didn't mean to suggest that the government should not provide any front end at all. After all outputting a simple HTML page with the same data in addition to a JSON dump should not be a difficult task in any sane web development architecture. However if you want app for your iphone 6 that integrates with the wardrobe planner that tells you what to wear when it is wet outside I think it is reasonable to let that development be funded privately.