[ndriscoll]

In a more reasonable world, web browsers would've been more-or-less done once we had xhtml/xslt and flexbox, and they wouldn't cost $500M/year to maintain. The insanity we have today is largely thanks to the influence of... the ad companies.

[amrocha]

Well no, web technologies have evolved for the better, and browsers enabled that. Security patches have to be shipped. That takes resources to build.