Both are terrible. The whole web is terrible. I wish for Gopher, nicely presented PDFs, thick apps and APIs and for the whole hypertext steaming pile of mess to crawl back to where it came from.
Good, performant, well designed apps and systems still exist. Absolute steaming piles of crap that didn't interoeprate existed "before the web" too.
> I wish for Gopher, nicely presented PDFs, thick apps and APIs
You're free to browse Gopher sites, only read latex documents, and stick to Desktop apps. PDF's are a great example of an absolute steaming pile of nonsense though. They're page layouts (that don't map to my 16:9 widescreen monitor, or to my 20:9 phone), have poor standards for layout and linking, and behind the scenes are just a mess of rules that are practically impossible to interpret, even on PDF's that aren't obfuscated. PDF's are a disaster, and I'd pick a css/js/html document over a PDF any day.
