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> People who want what they already have can just use what they already have.

My point is that while people may want to pursue what you described (some advanced UI behaviors), in practice they fuck up even basic functionality, because even that is almost impossibly hard to implement with text rendering and editing.

For example, in Repaint some basic emojis don't work. And I didn't even try inputting some Arabic or Hebrew or Chinese — I am sure that doesn't work too. Hats off if they manage to do it, but at this point they have spent all their funding on a custom text editor, while they could have spent in on actual features.

I, as a customer, don't care if a product uses WebGL or is written in Rust... All I care if it works or not.