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Maybe modern web is the real problem here?

The fact you need a large team of paid engineers just to keep up with whatever features big-tech is adding to their spyware browsers is probably not a great situation to be in.

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If I was a cynic then I would say that Google is very happy with adding more features to keep the circle of viable browser engines as small as possible, while simultaneously "accidentally" adding more and more ways to track users.

Of course the modern web is the real problem. It’s one of the worst application platforms ever invented, despite also being the single most popular.

It's also one of the best. I'm working on a little game in my spare time. It's built on this platform that you consider to be one of the worst ever invented. If I want people to try it out, I just give them a link and they're in the game in seconds.

There's no other application platform that comes even remotely close to that.

I was already doing that with Flash 15 years ago.

> I was already doing that with Flash 15 years ago.

In a web browser, yes.

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