Exactly. The problem is the platform has not kept up with the way it's used in practice. Features are added with strange priorities, and obvious blind spots ignored, leading to it being under-developed in many areas, and over-developed in a handful of others. We get vendors working on weird stuff like Web Bluetooth before obvious things like element anchoring (finally, yay... but still just a Working Draft) and reliable element position tracking (still a huge pain).
There are still no affordances for many things, so people have to invent their own solutions.
There are still no affordances for many things, so people have to invent their own solutions.