This is plain wrong.
I was a Web developer while it was happening and it was clear something was going terribly wrong with #HTML5 and #WHATWG.
The degradation of the #Web from an #HyperText system to a badly broken application distribution platform and runtime has been a deliberate military decision from the #US.
See https://medium.com/@giacomo_59737/the-web-is-still-a-darpa-weapon-31e3c3b032b8