"Nevertheless, my counter is: why does "the web" try to recreate existing technologies and operating systems?"
Was your exact statement so I'm not talking about just games and limiting it to them after the fact is disingenuous.
Was your exact statement so I'm not talking about just games and limiting it to them after the fact is disingenuous.
False. The average non-technical person is installing unsigned software from Steam and other cross-platform game stores.
In fact, the vast majority of all PC/Mac users play games downloaded from Steam and similar stores, not from the Microsoft/Apple stores.
> the average person isn't using Linux at all so it's not worth considering in this conversation.
The average gamer isn’t using Mac at all either (4% vs. 1% according to Steam), so I guess it is "not worth considering in this conversation" either.
Which leaves us with Windows. So porting to the browser is irrelevant since all games are played in a single platform, according to your own logic.