[AmazingBytecode]

The fact that our current systems for giving semantic classifications to web content are insufficient does not mean that giving web content semantic meaning is a pointless idea.

It's like going back to the early 1980s and blogging about how computer graphics suck so you shouldn't be wasting your time looking into them.

[spacefungus]

I disagree and don't think that's the point of the article. The analogy you gave is a little hinky, too.

The main point here is that too much time is wasted on simple issues. While energy is heaved into whether or not <time> is a better tag than <data>, a lot of actual work and design could have been done.

[ricardobeat]

I work in a front-end only dev shop, and while we might have a few hour-long discussions on markup scattered around the year, there aren't enough elements in the spec to keep us busy for a day. The article is just exaggerating the "issue".