With .net core you have asp.net mvc on on linux and mac. With a rel. decent IDE (VS 2015/17 Code). MS is really pushing that. One of many examples:

I think that the Webassembly (You can than develop in C#, Java, whatever has a web assembly compiler) is in the long run the only architechture / endevour that could put an end to that (yes I too consider it to be a) misery. It still has some not yet solved problems (like Garbage Collection, multithreading and more) and the task is daunting. But it is very well under way. If this really is to be more than a good platform for game developers remains to be seen. But as far as I understand the potential is there. Like an ecology of libraries for DOM Manipulation. And Tooling in the Style of WPF/Universal Windows XAML/Java FX: so one easyly develop "Desktop" style apps, that in the end write to the HTML Canvas or so. The implications are vast. And I would really like to see that that pulls of. It is the only concept I know of, that would dispense with the manifold of fundamental problems of the current situation with developing clients for a browser.(Which I have done extensively in the last years).