And that's the same reason HTML/CSS are so complex. Everyone is contributing to standards, which is already hard to do, and many of the contributing parties have competing platforms. It's in their best interest to, if not sabotage, at least make the web platform super complex and clunky to discourage or slow down development.
I agree 100% and this is why its such a clustfuck: the only way out is for me to create my own, competing, UI standard. Oh damn, its a burning pile of garbage, I'll just throw some more on it ..
