I used to be like this too. I thought it would be too mainstream to have a website rather than a natively compiled application running on the computer...
And then my friend in high school started this thing on his laptop.. a website.. it was server side rendered.. pretty satisfying... Then it took off...
I think the web can be nice with the right mix. I'm personally not too fan of these pages that are just white if you don't turn on JavaScript. It's just a feeling, nothing special. From a business perspective it makes sense, to throw all the rendering to the devices to save cost.

Lol the amount of bullying this guy is getting lately. I've seen similar spins and bends that looks somewhat legit, making people believe he suck at coding