Jonathan Blow

Isn’t this somewhat unfair though? Similar arguments were probably made for video games evolution, operating systems etc. As technology advances applications “expand” to take advantage of it, for better or worse, and may also in turn be the catalyst for technology advancements.

That's not quite the same. A videogame today renders a huge multiple of the number of triangles that they did in 1995. With countless new features. A website is basically just rendering text and images to the screen. Mostly the same functionality with much worse performance.

"A website is basically just rendering text and images to the screen." Tell that to Figma.

But, Figma ... renders text and images ... to the screen.

If you put it like that what else does any all do? :) But it would never work 20 years ago.

How half-life worked 20 years ago? Figma "didn't exist" 20 years ago because there is no such a big market for apps and web pages as today. It was technically possible 20 years ago.

It literally wasn't technically possible in a web browser.

Yeah, I mean, the whole premise of the discussion is that web tech is horrible.