Honesty and pragmatism, can't go wrong with that. Thank you for such a lovely answer.
Hope the question came across constructively to you at least, it was meant to be. I think to some it read it as "why not cool trends". Should have clarified it was just curiosity about an engineering decision.
Sure it's a valid question, and today there are many good reasons why something is better off as a web-app.
I have some REALLY large TreeSheets documents (equivalent of 200 pages worth of text, but all in a ton of tree nodes), and it be fun to see if a web based version could handle it. I'm hoping someone will try :)
Certainly I would never want to write a cross-platform GUI app in C++ again.. wxWidgets has been a pain.
Hope the question came across constructively to you at least, it was meant to be. I think to some it read it as "why not cool trends". Should have clarified it was just curiosity about an engineering decision.