Nothing you say is wrong per se. But what GP is saying i believe is that most website should not need these features to provide value to users. And indeed most website useful to me are still mildly interactive documents. The problem is that web browsers, standards, ecosystems inflated to cater these few webapps needing advanced control over the machine. In a sense web is just the new java: a new environment said to be "cross-plateform" where it is in fact just a new plateform that got its vm ubiquitous.
The web-as-vm has nothing wrong, but it has eaten the web-as-interactive-documents. And now to have a lightweight web experience not focused on webapps i am stuck with the heavyweight runtimes with even more stuff on top just to disable features, lock down invasive websites that grabbed the newly available features to implement invasive anti-features, etc.
The web-as-vm has nothing wrong, but it has eaten the web-as-interactive-documents. And now to have a lightweight web experience not focused on webapps i am stuck with the heavyweight runtimes with even more stuff on top just to disable features, lock down invasive websites that grabbed the newly available features to implement invasive anti-features, etc.