Re: The problem is browser offer an execution environment, but not "system" libraries.
"Since browsers are nowadays updated frequently, the user gets the latest version of library, and no wasted bandwidth"
I refer the honourable gentleman to the post I read some moments ago. If we could rely on everyone to be running a recent browser, a fair number of common JS libraries could be dispensed with altogether. Trouble is, we can't depend on that, or at least we believe that we can't.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
