This is what you see from the outside. LinkedIn also looks good from outside. This is the entire point of the story.

If the user experience is good, then the product is good. Users don't care about build time or internal dependency management.

Build time & internal dependency management are just a few markers used to predict where user experience will go in the future

Making something look good is very popular but entirely different from actual quality.

> LinkedIn also looks good from outside.

I partially disagree. IIRC their search is broken, and their job alerts are pretty lousy at de-duplicating advertised positions.

And IIRC they hijack the back button, which I find pretty offensive.

To be fair, it’s only a web application if you want it to be. I have all the usual office products installed locally. When I get a link that opens a document in the browser I click open in app and off it goes.