I mostly agree with you, HTML is stuck in the mindset of the era it was created in, to represent static documents that are created once and are not supposed to ever change.
This is why I feel projects like htmx (https://htmx.org/docs/#introduction) can really be what HTML should be in the 21st century: a container for dynamic data fully driven by the server. It's all made possible with javascript of course, but the idea is to not write a single line of it of course.
There are so many things that would make the web a better platform, instead of every single website reimplementing: proper authentication and account management, proper payment for a better monetization, proper separation of application and data, ... instead it's gone deep down into the valley of extreme graphical customization to the point it's now impossible to create a browser from scratch that can respect all the specs
This is why I feel projects like htmx (https://htmx.org/docs/#introduction) can really be what HTML should be in the 21st century: a container for dynamic data fully driven by the server. It's all made possible with javascript of course, but the idea is to not write a single line of it of course.
There are so many things that would make the web a better platform, instead of every single website reimplementing: proper authentication and account management, proper payment for a better monetization, proper separation of application and data, ... instead it's gone deep down into the valley of extreme graphical customization to the point it's now impossible to create a browser from scratch that can respect all the specs