[phkahler]

>> People realized it's a stupid and impractical rule and ignored it.

If by "people" you mean developers, and by "stupid and impractical" you mean inconvenient.

[joshuamorton]

Given that your rule of thumb is one that only developers would know or care about, yes...exactly.

Developers realized that their rule was stupid and impractical (not just inconvenient, but actively impractical: async interaction is faster and requires js), and so ignored it.