[kristopolous]

The article is really broken.

It's not about "the web" it's about various schools of web building.

This is most noticable when a property fundamentally changes their approach (reddit) or when twitter did it a while back and then (sensibly) retreated.

A better, more sensible approach then say, graphing CPU clockspeeds, would be to fragment web development into these various schools, give them names and then characterize them accordingly.

There's really only two ways to talk about this problem: one is hopelessly divisive and factional and the other is irrelevant and useless.

That sounds unpleasant? Correct! That's why it's still a problem and getting worse.

When the "make things better" axe falls on the fingers of the "mostly harmless" it's the passions of the axe wielder that get the focus and the blame. So instead we all slide into mediocrity together. It's the path of human institutions and the web isn't immune from the pattern.