No, it's like refusing to use Agent Orange to kill the weeds for fear of poisoning the neighboring farms.

You walked right into that one, sorry.

I guess we might have a mismatch in values.

As you hint at it, "the World Wide Web as an application platform" specifically happened more because Google was wrestling with Microsoft over the future of personal computing than because of its inherent qualities. (And then they both got sidelined by Apple's iPhone, but Google (unlike Microsoft) did manage to both enter that battlefield and hold that front.)