As a technologist I hope that de-facto monopolic legacy poorly-designed technologies (JS and HTML) will give way to new better technologies.
I am very happy that at least mobile still gives developers many options - mostly without lame transpilation.
Talk is cheap - would love to see some of yours "not lame" piece of work.
Web lets me use: only JavaScript (that is written manually or transpiled).
Yes I will have to pay extra for some solutions, but I don't mind doing this as opposed to using language that I hate.
And Web Components are bringing innovation (component based app building) to rusty world of web dev which is not restricted to rich western society (Apple).
I stopped ranting on JS - just use lang with good enough IDE like Dartlang (DartEditor or IntelliJ)
PS: previous comment was not "ad persona" - but if you think transpilation is "lame" - you don't know how hard it's to make performant transpiler and how wonderful piece of tech are some of those transpilers