As for bringing up the platform to meet libraries (#2), we've been hard at work on this! Modern, responsible frameworks have taken advantage of the work I and my team ("Parkour") did from '10-'15, removing polyfills and bloat in favour of modern ES and DOM. It's great!
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This practice of zooming out ever-so-slightly explains most of the difference in platform vs. app developer behavior in my experience. Platform developers are like Ents; they have responsibility over long time-periods for the things app developers take for granted.
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App developers take it for granted that the language doesn't break whenever new browsers are released, that new features are iterative, that things get faster year-on-year without them needing to re-compile their code.
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Platform developers, meanwhile, have incentive to look at the totality of the web rather than the shouty, shiny bits. You know who's a *much* bigger community than React developers? WordPress-ecosystem web developers. What they need matters more, if we're being fair.
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But we listen regardless, and try to balance needs across these differently-geared timescales and balance them with the relatively limited resources available to each individual browser team. We'll keep doing that, no matter what names
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