To be perfectly honest, yes it does. But what am I to do if I want maximum interoperability and ease of installation? The difference in penetration my project will get via web extension installation vs binary distribution is huge. I can extend it later with native application calls. Not to mention all of the interactive content that we instantly have access to in the browser vs only on a single person's machine. In addition, the extension also works on mobile Firefox for both ios and android when I use Fenec and extend it.
There are use cases that you'll see in the future that couldn't grow or exist otherwise.
Hyperbolic tldr; Don't be old and crotchety. Join us, lead us, or die.
> Hyperbolic tldr; Don't be old and crotchety. Join us, lead us, or die.
I know it was hyperbole but this sort of attitude is what got a generation of technologists and end-users to blindly accept oversharing their personal data, having that data used by nefarious third parties, and to be spied on. We're now in the midst of that same generation realising this far too late and having the monumentally difficult task of convincing their technologically-illiterate friends and family to move away from the shiny reality they promised but never delivered.
I'm happy with softly-softly-catchy-monkey rather than driving off the side of the cliff at 100 km/h, thank you.
There are use cases that you'll see in the future that couldn't grow or exist otherwise.
Hyperbolic tldr; Don't be old and crotchety. Join us, lead us, or die.