I’ve been making web apps since 2003, which means that I’ve been doing this for fourteen years now, or it means that I can’t count. So, there are few people more qualified than me to tell you this:
The web is shit.
I've been doing this since 1996. I watched the transition from server-side analytics (one of my first jobs was implementing access log collection and anaylsis for a decently sized group of sites) to client-side.
I remember solutions like analog and on up to Urchin and then Urhcin's transiton to client-side and finally its acqusition by Google.
By 2000, anyone paying attention knew it would not end well.
So here we are, bloated web. I'll be mildly amused if sites are forced to return to server-side log collection because enough folks have started using tracking blockers.
Everything old is new again.