Comment by ripped_britches

So how do you write a mobile app with HTML and CSS? Or a TV app? Or a car app? Or a watch app? Or a VR app?

The “one simple standard” falls apart when you need multiple platforms.

And honestly the document and document styling model wouldn’t work very well for these platforms.

Everything from “center a div” to “pinterest style masonry grid” is 100x easier in flutter.

Also, flutter is not “another abstraction” on top of web. The widgets don’t map to DOM elements at all. It is a completely orthogonal approach. All of the other web frameworks are indeed abstractions, but flutter is not.

Just curious, have you used flutter before? My impression is that you would like it because there is actually less abstraction. A widget just represents a paintable object on a canvas without any more indirection than you give it.