I wonder how productive it is to mention that though. Sure, that may not be the reason they exist and came to be (something about exchanging documents) but it may be how they are mostly used today.
You are insisting on justifying all of the complexity of browsers by claiming the same functionality that people got in the 70's with a small OS that was hand-written in assembly.
Sorry, but you don't seem to want a productive discussion. You just have a preconceived idea that turns out to be wrong.
I am not insisting anything. I wanted to point out that the "reason why browsers exist/came to exist" can be relevant in this discussion but is not a direct logical contradiction to their current complexity.
If I say, the pdf came to be in order to be a simple way to digitally represent printed/printable documents that may be correct but wouldn't actually express anything about the current complexity of the pdf format. Admittedly perhaps a bad example due to how similar it is.
It's possible I misunderstood though. If so, I apologize.
