[jinushaun]

I agree. I think the original author completely missed the point and conflates lack of mainstream usage with dead tech. If you never run into problems that xpath addresses, of course you’ll never use xpath. It’s not for everyday use. And certainly shouldn’t be billed as a CSS selector replacement.

[chriswarbo]

I think their complaints about browser support are fair (orthogonal to whether the newer versions are any good, which most of the comments here are talking about!)

In a self-managed environment, like a PC or server, then you're right that popularity makes little difference.