I blame the devops industrial complex. When cloud providers came online and especially when "devops" became a thing then developers became the marketing target. Social media, the whole influencer concept, and all those manipulation tactics were turned loose on software developers. Look at the breadth and depth of services and tools on the market to produce a web application.

Another thing, this isn't the first instance of the pendulum swinging back. Providing what would normally be desktop apps through a browser reminds me of dumb terminals attached to an AS400.