Your not wasting my time, I'm trying to do something about it. I'm just not gonna agree that what lead us to this issue in the first place in also the solution and no your comparison is not apples to apples.

Calling the server distribution is an over simplification of the issues. To this point we should only use the browser in the terminal, but even when its just text it still has to "format" it's content.

this the problem, who owns the "formats" for the content in a system where many sub systems needs to be aware of "formatting"

If the server didn't have to be aware of the html at all and it was only ever just raw data I would agree with your view.