Why it's bad that the web is so feature-rich
The thing I really hate about stage 4 web (to borrow idiomdrottning's terminology) is being gaslit by webdevs about accessibility, especially as it relates to JavaScript. When I bring up the topic, it's like, "JavaScript isn't harmful for accessibility. In fact, the web is inaccessible without JS." Yeah, I much prefer being able to use the web with command-line tooling and other comfortable tools. But the thing often doesn't even work from the environments that web designers and developers insist that I use.
This morning, I've asked Deedra to pay our Internet bill, because I couldn't manage it with either Firefox or Chromium on Linux. She tried Brave on Linux, and now she's booted into a Windows VM. If Windows browsers don't work, I'll try my phone. If that doesn't work, we'll try Safari on her iPhone.
In late December / early January, I wasted 4 hours of my life trying to buy a thing on ebay. The only thing that worked was Edge in a Windows VM.
This kind of thing happens routinely. It is one of the reasons why I refuse to work. And now I'm grateful for heart disease and congestive heart failure, which have given me even more reasons not to work. If someone wants to pay me to do dishes or cut vegetables or what have you, I could possibly be down with that. But I will never hold down a tech job again, unless by some chance, I never need to work with stage 4 web. Not after 25 years of various forms of gaslighting.