[tl]

Your argument is sound but it does not support your conclusion; react native is an example of “changing the base”. It is missing a significant chunk of HTML and CSS as an implementation detail. It is not an improvement, and I treat it as evidence that approach will not yield an improvement.

[gbalduzzi]

The whole thread is about web development though, React Native is not web development. It's app development in React/JS, there are similarities but it's definitely not web development