This is a fundamental and very true point - as long as the web remains as inanely centralized as it is presently there will never be stability/usability on par

This is a fundamental and very true point - as long as the web remains as inanely centralized as it is presently there will never be stability/usability on par with desktop applications. Not because web-apps are worse than desktop-apps but because users can never manage to build up their skill sets before the web-apps are changed and "improved": in conclusion this situation is the bane of sanity and the course of the rise of the Slow Web movement!