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Just to add even more counterbalance, I consider both Google and Mozilla enemies of public discourse on the internet.

What I'm referring to is the fact that turning the web into a platform on which a wide variety of applications can run makes it more complicated and consequently more failure-prone and more tedious to use the web to publish and to read text, images and links to other pages of text and images.

I don't in isolation mind the creation of a new application-delivery platform (and I appreciate the fact that the new application-delivery platform is not the intellectual property of a single corporation). I just wish there were some way to tell publishers of text, images and links to other pages of text and images to switch from the new application-delivery platform to something else, something whose design is not a compromise between the needs of the application-delivery platform and the needs of publishers and readers of text, images and links to other pages of text and images.

Documents work better when they are mere data as opposed to programs requiring or assuming a complicated execution environment. HTML documents were better than PostScript and MS-Word documents for this reason -- until JavaScript was added to HTML, and web pages became programs assuming an execution environment, and then that execution environment got more and more complicated.