> The final nail in that coffin is that a significant portion of the web is accessed these days via phones: which, by Google or Apple mandate, are extremely locked down ecosystems.
If anything, it should be a reminder that the web is really the only open system that we have and it's mostly just a quirk of history and luck that we have it at all. And it's too ingrained in our society to, say, release a phone that simply refuses to have a web browser. And I don't think we truly appreciate it enough.
Totally agree. Appreciate what we have and ensure it continues to be healthy for what it already does. I love that we have an open HTML document rendering engine where anyone can make things available at a URL and people can experience those documents. Amazing!