> But I believe there is a difference between making Emacs read mail or news or have a shell because you needed to in the 1970s and making Emacs browse web sites or act as an httpd because you can in the 2000s. I wonder if perhaps the people who want to fix all of EmacsLisp’s problems want to do so more for their own benefit – so it will be a better general-purpose development base and toolkit – than to make Emacs better for everyone. I wonder if they have lost sight of the primary application: the editor[5].

I actually get a lot of utility out of eww, it's not just a novelty for me. I can browse online documentation without a DM, or if I do have a DM, without moving my hand to the mouse. It's not just a novelty.

It is getting increasingly difficult to use; much like emacs the web has also transitioned from its original intention (hypertext documents) to a bloated app development platform and it's increasingly unfriendly and difficult to use with simple browsers. Even so, there are still websites worth visiting that are usable from trivial browsers as long as you avoid the many apps masquerading as webpages.