@slightlyoff And how many of those web "applications" could be replaced by plain old HTML+CSS *websites* with little to no clientside active content at all?
Your blog or company website most likely doesn't need JS at all to achieve the functionality you're trying to build. I miss the days of fully static sites (or at worst some server side templating) being the de facto standard.
@azonenberg @slightlyoff especially from a power consumption PoV