There's a massive difference. Back then you had a single company that kinda-sorta didn't care about the web. They already had an application platform they were happy with. There wasn't really an incentive for them to evolve it once they had the dominant position. The web was stagnating for years.
Nowadays we actually have multiple players that are very active in the development of the web. The situation is not at all comparable.
> So let's sit back and just watch Google continuously adding more superfluous features into the Web like Web(USB, Bluetooth, NFC, etc) and the web-devs will force you to use Chrome again
Superfluous to you. If developers are using it, then it's obviously filling some need. What do you say to developers who are asking for those features? "Sorry, that's not compatible with my idea of what the web is. Go write a {Windows,Linux,MacOs} application and tell your users to download it".
It always comes back to this. People want progress in the areas they care about, but no progress in other areas.
The alternatives have no chance in doing anything about it. Firefox is entirely dependent on Google for funding (and has been for years), Microsoft recently switched to Chromium for Edge and Safari is again years behind (Just like IE.). There are only really two competitors here. (Apple and Google once again!)
So let's sit back and just watch Google continuously adding more superfluous features into the Web like Web(USB, Bluetooth, NFC, etc) and the web-devs will force you to use Chrome again (which indirectly helps Electron apps); leaving the rest of the non-Chromium browsers in the dust.
> Saying that Fuchsia is highly dependent on Flutter is like saying Linux is highly dependent on GTK.
False equivalence.
You're the one that just compared a kernel with full operating system. Oh dear. I'm definitely sure that the device in the article is running Flutter right now.
> With that said, maybe your crystal ball on the future of Fuchsia isn't so clear.
Given that Fuchsia also has the intention of running unmodified Android apps as well, my crystal ball could not be any more clearer of its future. Perhaps you getting confused on your last sentence was an indication that your crystal ball has just malfunctioned.