Hi Sam.

I think that most phone-centric users are teenagers. Business users use tablets and laptops for most things.

I loathe the phone experience for accessing websites. I read the news a lot on my phone at night in bed, and some sites I can barely read because things are popping up and moving around, and every time an ad changes it rearranges the screen, and the text I was reading jumps somewhere else. And when I click on a link, read that, and then click Back, it takes me to the top instead of where I was. It is awful.

And HTML’s entire concept was to enable someone to define content without presentation - presentation is supposed to be added via a style sheet. An HTML page should be readable on a mobile device if the styles are defined well.

Yes, users are the biggest threat, but is that helpful? Users are users.

You are right that most users are pretty naive with all this. After all, they use Chrome - the biggest Trojan Horse ever created.

We are where we are. As Alan Kay said, the Web was “created by amateurs” and is “a pop culture”. Javascript frameworks are popular the same way that pop stars are. The tools used in the Web are not chosen because they make sense.