[beaconstudios]

I'm aware of that - the existing HTML versions have been pretty much incremental though. XHTML was a breaking change but more for syntactical reasons. By a "2.x" version I mean a fresh rewrite with no requirements for parity with previous versions, so the lessons of the current engine can be applied in a clean-slate environment.

[stephenr]

i feel like there must be an xkcd that sums up your suggestion...

[illustrioussuit]

https://xkcd.com/927/

Or mobile: https://m.xkcd.com/927/

[beaconstudios]

I'm not sure that applies here but it could definitely suffer from the Second System Effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect