@openrisk
> You could imagine servers being pure data API endpoints and the GUI being handled locally

For sure. I touched on another way to think about it here:
mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103

What it comes down to is that is an excellent way for newbie developers to make their code run on other people's computers without having to pass any of the security review it would require to be installed natively. Which is exactly as bad as it sounds ;)
@clacke