The web as a general platform, is compromised. It was never a great idea, it was a sales pitch and the world bought it because they made the presentation decent enough and put it in everyones hands and called it computing. The original format of hyperlinked documents was 'moderately OK' for research document storage and perusal. Even they knew the design was odd. If people understood how much power there was in the server/client dynamic, everyone would be doing amazing things (cept the ones that dont). Every single 'application' site used today is an extremely simple but highly scaled paradigm.