I'm kinda hopeful that Maui+Blazor will eventually let us have our cake and eat it too - instead of "everything is web", do "everything is a desktop-style gui framework" including the web. Although AFAIK they don't even have a web renderer on the horizon right now - purely desktop+mobile.
Of course, there will be angry PMs and designers that will be upset that their website looks like it was spat out of a desktop GUI framework instead of looking exactly how they want it to look. I remember people whining about how desktop-looking ExtJS was back in the day... this was for an inventory-management application, shouldn't it look like a desktop productivity app?
> Should it not be possible to style a native GUI application with the same framework language as for a website?
Not if the native controls are strongly opinionated as to style language, such that there is limited themability, unless you go to the level that your “native GUI” is doing the equivalent of drawing and reading mouse touches from a canvas to implement a custom UI rather than using more specific native controls.
Isn't that basically what Flutter does? In my experience, it works well enough for mobile, although you still have people saying it's not "native enough." It's less stable on web and desktop though but it works.
Flutter on web is basically unusable for anything that involves text or links. The browser has so much native functionality here that trying to reimplement it is futile.
Of course, there will be angry PMs and designers that will be upset that their website looks like it was spat out of a desktop GUI framework instead of looking exactly how they want it to look. I remember people whining about how desktop-looking ExtJS was back in the day... this was for an inventory-management application, shouldn't it look like a desktop productivity app?