[andrekandre]

  software is getting more complex and i.e. it's unthinkable now for anything but a very large company to make their own browser.

isnt the answer then to reduce the incidental complexity?

provide alternatives that have "onramps" to greater capability instead of being stuck in "dumb ui land".

even a browser could be re-imagined as just a vm that runs "html" as a shared lib for one type of content, greatly simplifying the model for broswer makers

there are lots of potentialities i think

[cs2733]

This complexity supports increasing functionality (i.e, the browser becomes an operating system within the operating system) and also legacy technology (i.e. Microsoft Windows), both of which have come to be expected by the customer/user. The complexity itself is made possible by constant gains in hardware processing capability such that optimization is often a secondary concern.

AI's are now in the early stages of being used to write code and that's only going to increase.