Put all the manifold utility of #web deployment aside for a moment. I am not saying that people shouldn't deploy applications to the web, or even that they shouldn't use #JavaScript and #NodeJS although I feel that far far too much emphasis has been given to such tools.
The resulting "world wide web" is hideously slow and janky and jam-packed with advertising and glitches and advertising disguised as glitches, and clearly this is considered to be extremely profitable.
(cont'd)