[krapp]

Tyranny of the adequate. JS won in the browser, despite HTML being designed with the intent of supporting multiple languages, because it was adequate to the task (scripting the DOM.) JS won everywhere else because the web was (and thus JS developers were) ubiquitous, easy to hire, and low cost. HTML and CSS are adequate replacements for native UIs. A web app wrapped in a Chromium instance is an adequate replacement for a native application. The SV startup mentality at its finest - the least amount of effort to ship something as fast as possible, quality be damned.