[bobajeff]

That doesn't really solve the problem. It will involve many many many many hours of development to get to the point where it's a viable alternative and if it ever does eventually reach that state, it will require lots of lots of hours of maintenance work.

[jauntywundrkind]

Yes. The world's most powerful incredible capable hyper-media is challenging to rebuild. Thats not a bug: it bespeaks the beneficent featurefulness.

[bobajeff]

That's only fine if you just care about the Web as a software platform. What about security vulnerabilities? What about having choices in browsers? What happens when Google decides they are finally ready to deprecate manifest v2?