You know that for example video games do this all the time in a complexity scale that dwarfs every web stack?
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And besides that, UIs have become way more complex since the 90s. Infinite scrolling (or higher data density in general), animations, complex styling and layout constraints, more fonts, more languages, more input methods (touch), complex vector drawings (maps), more networking
Yes, the job is some small factor more complicated, but computers are orders of magnitude faster. There is a big mismatch here.
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Seriously though, the only way you can be making these arguments is if you have no idea how fast your computer actually is.
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I'm not sure what you mean. Give me a UI framework that does all the basics better and faster, and I'll use it. I'm not defending the browser stack by any means.
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I definitely agree with that. Take a look at the *base* HTML node: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement … That doesn't begin to even describe everything that goes on underneath the hood, and that's literally just the base element. Even Flash was more lightweight.
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The point is exactly that something like this is totally insane and needs to be redesigned with engineering foresight and simplicity, robustness and performance as first goals.
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