The push to have everything be served over HTTPS is absolutely insane. Very few things actually need to be served securely. But sadly, browser makers don't give a damn about actual benefits for the users, but rather shove their out of touch ideas about what the Web should be down everyone's throats.
Imagine if you found someone making full fledged applications from word documents. Like, they'd managed to create a "framework" in VBA so they can do all the things word docs can't do out the box. The word documents were running servers, production code etc
You'd think the person was creative but maybe insane.
This is the exact same feeling I get when I see web "apps".
