Mobile and micro-services will change that.

> why don't you think it makes sense?

Because I went through the evolution of using text based GUIs, Amiga, Atari and PC GUI toolkits, drawing UIs with the likes of Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C++ Builder. To the modern ones of XAML, Cocoa, QML and so on.

The list is just a bit long to post here. Most of them provided a saner developer experience than HTML/CSS/JavaScript will ever do. Unless we throw DOM away and replace it by something more tailored to applications instead of rendering documents.

Even if the DOM gets replaced, the browser can hardly provide an integrated experience in terms of what any native desktop/mobile environment offers to its users in terms of immersion and interactivity between applications.

It is just no different than using Java with AWT 1.0 in the early years without native widgets and integration to the respective desktop APIs.