Okay, maybe it was some of that slow-brewing anger that made it to the end of the post. What I don't want fucked with, rather, is a set of very open standards, with competing implementations that already exist for a myriad of different platforms. The standards used to come slow but are now evolving faster than ever, and the implementations update themselves automatically without user interference.

What is wrong with this picture? Really? Are you willing to trade all this away, merely to get rid of the vestigial API cruft, which is mostly already abstracted away by tons of nice tools (coffeescript? bootstrap? etc.)?

I honestly think that it's going to be hard to come up with a better platform since that's a moving target: The web is evolving all the time and is ahead the competition in many respects (see my parent post).

I want to cry when people want to toss this all away when we have it so good right now. I dealt with the web when it was a complete mess. I am thankful for what it is now and the direction it's rapidly moving in.