Yes. This has nothing to do with people trying to rewrite things in Rust for fun. It's a part of his development project that I'm sure will get a video in the future.
Truthfully, one primary reason: the web natively lacks the ability to declaratively map data to HTML. Virtually all web frameworks exist primarily to fill this gap. Non-native implementations of other features outflow from that.
In the last few years, I have not had a single Uber ride from the airport to my house (15 mins) cost less than $60. Sometimes it's as high as $120. I recently went back to carpooling and being social.
Uber has over 30k employees... why? The service quality has not increased in a decade.
Ride apps are on an enshittification speedrun, worse than virtually any other company or service out there.
Completely in agreement, I had the exact same thought. Reminds me from a few years ago where Sam Altman went in front of Congress to scaremonger the country over AI. Purely a thinly-veiled plead for regulatory capture.