> You mean clients i can hardly update

Yes! You dont have to update if you dont want to. Thats a feature. Of course, the rise of proprietary APIs over interoperable protocols has lessened that advantage.

> You mean clients i can hardly update, and most often clunky as well? I dont see the improvement.

Is better performance and more features not an improvement to you?

What more features? All can be done in javascript, without making users install garbage, without spending extra resources. I prefer companies spend their resources on improving the product instead of implementing same thing thrice.

What most people dont realize is web apps are a boon to linux people. Most companies would not develop for linux at all.

> What more features?

Support for most platform APIs?

> I prefer companies spend their resources on improving the product instead of implementing same thing thrice.

Funny, this is exactly my issue with web apps. I don't want to use software where the engineers have done a poor job reimplementing things the system provides for free.

Build the tools to enable them. Dont blame engineers lack of experience on the language. I used libreoffice early on, was not impressed. Same story.