[jarcane]

The problem is that we're trying to think in terms of "apps" on a platform that was invented and built in terms of "documents." The web wasn't designed to be an "interface", the browser was, and it's purpose was to display interlinked documents.

On top of this, the pace of the web's development has outstripped the capability of anyone to actually plan the extensions to this base model, so everything since is just hacks on top of hacks. But it works enough for people to keep going through investor storytime year on year, so ... we continue to move fast, and break everything.