There are now many front-end JS frameworks that make work easier for developers in exchange for speed, space, and resources. More and more corporations are finding they can make more money and spend less money if they have their devs use the frameworks to complete the websites more quickly. This is a trend that has gone beyond just web development. Corporations wanted their employees to write desktop apps faster, so they made Electron, the bane of my existence. Essentially, it is a website bundled with a Chromium browser (open-source version of Chrome). Discord uses Electron, for example. This means that to install Discord, you also have to install the browser, and deal with Chromium’s immense resource usage as well as that of the JS-filled website it loads, just to chat with your friends and read your emails. It’s absolutely idiotic, but as long as we have capitalism, corporations will cut corners to exploit the working people even more.