[krapp]

> when we can make web pages, and entire sites without once actually using something a human can disassemble and reverse engineer ... this will be the end of the open web. truly the complete dead end of it.

No more than it was when Flash was a thing, or Java applets, or Silverlight. The world has been presented with numerous opportunities to turn the web into nothing but binaries, it hasn't happened.

>Unless maybe I'm missing something.

You're missing the part where someone would have to put a gun to everyone's head and force them to rewrite the entire web as WASM blobs, then force all of the browsers to be redesigned, and the servers, so that HTML and plaintext are deprecated, for your doomsday scenario to be even remotely plausible.