>I’m hard-pressed to name more than a handful of web apps that I would say are genuinely good with no major flaw.

>Content websites are a different matter. A static or server-rendered content website with adequate typography and semantic markup is generally going to do its job pretty well.

I feel the exact opposite. Most web-based applications are pretty incredible these days.

It's the "content websites" that are insanely bloated and over engineered (and unnecessarily turned into "apps"). E.g. news sites, new reddit, recipe sites