Greed ... Shareholder value became more important than anything else, and this is nothing wait until AI and robotics deliver on what they're promising.
At a previous employer we had a rule. The only person allowed to say, "just", was the developer responsible for actually making it work. Another developer who said it, just volunteered themselves.
Yes! Since jank is using LLVM, AOT compiled jank programs have a path to WASM. This isn't a primary goal for jank, but it's one we can definitely pursue once jank's Clojure parity and general dev UX has been established.