Yes, this certainly /feels/ like the trend. Yet folks like Github and Youtube and Microsoft are busy building a better web that does re-center & re-emphasize the DOM, by adopting & driving WebComponents forward.

It's weird to me that there is such a sizable disconnect: that a lot of very big very large players have adopted good web technology, but that so much of the world hasn't caught on, doesn't see it, doesn't know how they'd do it themselves. The lessons, of what large scale application design look like in such an environment, have not started disseminating out. The tools are there, but visualizing how they come together to make a web app, that's still fairly mysterious. But being done at very large scales, seemingly quite effectively.

> Rather, we should find ways to ensure that whatever direction the web takes, we can keep building powerful tools to foster the creativity and agency you and I have today, and push them to the hands of the mainstream.

:hands-up: Very nicely said.