Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash? (2018)

One can absolutely keep a webful experience with webassembly. But there's a huge drive of "Towards a Modern Web Stack" people who want to use Canvas and raw input processing to build their own engines, ignore the web completely & do everything themselves. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC...

They value the web only from the developer perspective, for what they can build. The user agency of the web is irrelevant. It's such a Applet/Flash/Native vibe.