Creating something new for a different use case isn't pointless. It's like comparing inline skates to ice skates.

Believe me, I tried sticking to SQLite or aard2 or stardict, they just were fundamentally inadequate with no good pwa cross platform tooling.

Doesn’t even apply unless someone says that (1) there are too many “standards”, and (2) so we are making this standard (neither apply here). Someone made something.

We should really consider eventually retiring memes because they just end up as thought-terminating cliches.

This is of course referring to xkcd #927. How do I know that?