Apart from this being terribly written

Agreed.

Wine is successful because of the decades of work put into it. For Darling to reach that level of support it would need a herculean amount of effort as well.

Well it helps that its open source & apple is actually encouraging contributions: https://github.com/apple/container

For instance, I can’t download completely youtube pages with videos using wget, but can with pywb (though pywb has issues with sites like reddit).

Not that I would necessarily use it for youtube pages, but that’s an example of a complex page with lots of AJAX.

Doesn’t work well for more complex sites.

I looked at that but it doesn’t feel as nice as Asahi Linux - since it’s not constrained to a VM and brightness and text look better.

I use Kitty and didn’t find much in the documentation tbh.

Depends on the Software. For instance, does Autodesk have more tutorial videos than FreeCAD because it’s used more, or is it used more because there are more tutorials?

To answer a question like this, a graph of users over time would be helpful, or at least knowing when the software became very popular, then figure out what happened in that time period.