It had compactness, consistency, accessibility, multi language built in, composability, ability for the User to customize things like contrast and sizes, etc.
Personally I was excited that maybe this would be a project that would get back to those sane foundations.
I suspect because they don't leverage the main advantage of a GUI toolkit: provide a coherent, familiar and proven user interface. These examples all look like websites and all have completely different styles. I can see how this fits into the current just-ship-a-webapp-plus-browser trend though.
https://www.hwaci.com/sw/mktclapp/xmta1.jpg
It had compactness, consistency, accessibility, multi language built in, composability, ability for the User to customize things like contrast and sizes, etc.
Personally I was excited that maybe this would be a project that would get back to those sane foundations.
Oh well, fuck that I guess