Yeah. Browsers are unfortunately OS:es now, finally realizing pmarca's dream of reducing Windows to a "poorly debugged set of device drivers".
Edit: I removed some stuff I first wrote.
> It’s both surprisingly and dismayingly difficult to get people — especially computerists — to criticize the web and the web browsers — even more so perhaps today.
Definitely agree with this. People tend to view it as something handed down to them by Gods. It's not.
Edit 2: This needs a larger discussion. I just posted it as a new submission.