[vouaobrasil]

I feel like that's true only because we have a culture of making needlessly complex websites on the level of OS drivers, mostly to artificially grab attention due to the sickness of SEO.

[Zak]

How am I supposed to break the back button, "improve" scrolling, and make links you can't open in a new tab without at least 5mb of Javascript?

[vouaobrasil]

Hahah. Don't forget paywalls. More websites should have those.

[ralegh]

Web browsers could have 1/10th of the features, basically enough for markdown, forms, forums, displaying media, and minimal styling.

[vouaobrasil]

Yes, and that would be enough to make a useful internet. Unfortunately, out of control capitalistic tendencies push for maximum features for no real benefit at all.