Don’t attribute to malice… Many people working on frontend came from application or backend development and preferred the JavaScript model to a more declarative one. Not understanding enough the document context that drives the web. This makes everything more fragile and slow but hey “functionality” wins over everything else in todays world.
This doesn't explain ListView and TreeView. Or the lack of a DatePicker widget.
Look at Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, Gtk, Qt.
Which of those doesn't have these widgets?
I'm tired of defending mega corps with thousands of employees with IQs through the roof, working on this for decades. It has to be latent malice. Banality of evil, if you will.
