Oh God.<p>Every discussion about the web will continue to be a mess until we clarify what we&#x27;re talking about.<p>Let&#x27;s try rephrasing the title a couple times.<p>Rephrase 1: &quot;The average size of a webapp is now the average size of a Doom install&quot;.<p>Response: Interesting, but not bad! Heck, some webapps are games. &quot;The average size of a web game is now the average size of Doom&quot; isn&#x27;t a sentence that damns the web, it&#x27;s a sentence that complements the web! (or would if it was true, and it might be for all I know)<p>Rephrase 2: &quot;The average size of web document is now the average size of a Doom install&quot;.<p>Response: Well this sucks (or would if it was true -- still we don&#x27;t know). Simple documents should be a few KB, not the size of a game.<p>Basically our terminology is shot to crap. Imagine if 19th century engineers used the same word for &quot;hand crank&quot; and &quot;steam engine&quot;. &quot;Hand crank prices are skyrocketing! What&#x27;s causing this massive bloat!&quot; Whelp, that could mean anything.<p>The best solution: web browsers should enforce a clear distinction between &quot;web documents&quot; and &quot;web apps&quot;. These are two different things and should be treated separately. This won&#x27;t happen though, which leaves us (the rest of the tech community) to explore other options . . .