@silverwizard I would also argue that it enables the big corps to limit our freedoms with the computers we bought, by locking us to "the web".
Bare metal is freedom!
Even if people don't like C/C++/Rust/Go/Pascal, it is important that they exist, so others can have their native Python and Node.
I must admit that I do enjoy messing around with WASM, but now that I think of it, it's sort of me enjoying my own leach.