<i>&gt; We need to get away from this whole &quot;The browser is a poor man&#x27;s operating system&quot; model anyway. Let the browser do a great job of browsing hypermedia and then hand off to specialized programs when we want to do something outside that paradigm.</i><p>Yes, we should definitely take an entire category of applications that hundreds of millions (billions?) of people use productively every day and throw it out the window because we think they&#x27;re Doing It Wrong™.<p>I&#x27;m sure their users will understand; if users care about anything, it&#x27;s that their software be as elegant as it possibly can be.