[CRConrad]

> Many even prefer email or similar clients to be desktop apps.

"Many" ?"even"? You make that sound like "many, as opposed to most", and "even, i.e. an exception".

I haven't had a job yet -- at least not this century, can't quite recall before -- where the standard e-mail client was anything other than the Outlook desktop client. The Web UI, if in use at all, has always been distinctly secondary, "If the real Outlook doesn't work, try this"-style. (Hmm, how old is Outlook? Must have been something else in the 90, at least the early ones...? And as a TA at Uni before that it was a TUI-thingy from IBM, but then OTOH maybe that doesn't count as a "real job".)

> I expect this list of tools that "must" be thick to dwindle.

The reason daliy-use tools must be "thick" is that in such tools you want a nice UI with some flow to it, so that it becomes in effect invisible. And fucking Web pages that masquerade as "applications" just don't have or do any of that. So let's hope this mania ends soon and your list, far from dwindling, starts to expand again.