> On every WebAssembly discussion, there is inevitably one comment (often near the top) asking what happened

The meat of the article is informative, but the headline and motivation is based on this statement. It’s doesn’t reflect my experience but maybe I just don’t hang out in the same internet spots as the OP.

> We don’t yet see major websites entirely built with webassembly-based frameworks

I don’t know why this entered into the zeitgeist. I don’t think this was ever a stated goal of the WebAssembly project. I get the sense that some people assumed it and then keep wondering why this non-goal hasn’t been realized.