Seems to me a lot of this is possible because developers are lazy and want to shoehorn application delivery and runtime into a system originally designed for sharing documents.

Those same developers seem to heavily overlap with the group that loves to shit on FTP and DNS etc., because they were designed for a less adversarial internet. I'm not sure what to make of that cognitive dissonance.

But, maybe browsers as we know them should die and be replaced with something better.