Debugging CSS is much less fun than using a proven multiplatform C++ toolkit. Only when node.js got popular I could write the ever reliable callbacks in my web code, while I use them all the time in C++.
But of course there are more people who can write web apps than people who can add this symbol at the end of the line -> ;
Only if you are speaking about database frontends that are nothing more than enhanced versions of "form submit", which used to be done in RPG, COBOL, CLIPPER, VB and now Web.
There are many other areas when desktop is still the way to go.
