[fasa99]

You are 100% right but it's no reason to pick on web in particular! When you hit a site, you may have a virtual HTML environment running a JIT virtual machine from a server that's running a virtual python environment on a virtual python environment on a virtual machine on a virtual machine, and all that runs on a virtual x86 processor which in reality is a series of microcode processors. Yes, yes, it would be so much simpler to have your web go straight to the source, microcode, and yes, things would be simple and fast... .. but ... but ABSTRACTION!!!! LETS ABSTRACT EVERYTHING EVER AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE WITH AS MANY ABSTRACTION LAYERS AS POSSIBLE IT GENERALIZES TO THE GENERAL CASE ABSTRACTION GENERALIZES ALL CASES WOOOOWWWW THE COMPUTER SCIENCE OF IT ALL

That is the state of things.