Not disagreeing with you. Learning a new JavaScript API is much more accessible than waddling through the morass of VoIP standards. But ultimately, that's all WebRTC is -- an API specification with MTIs for media handling that are going to look antiquated in a decade.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that -- tooling makes all the difference in the world, and the reason WebRTC is catching is because the right substrate for RTC is finally available in the browser. What's missing in the dialogue is that WebRTC only solves a small subset of the problems that V/VoIP addresses. They are complementary technologies, but not substitutes -- we'll be seeing a lot of reinventing the wheel and rediscovering the same mistakes in the years to come.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that -- tooling makes all the difference in the world, and the reason WebRTC is catching is because the right substrate for RTC is finally available in the browser. What's missing in the dialogue is that WebRTC only solves a small subset of the problems that V/VoIP addresses. They are complementary technologies, but not substitutes -- we'll be seeing a lot of reinventing the wheel and rediscovering the same mistakes in the years to come.