[CharlesW]

I don't think anyone's trying to be impolite or diminish What Came Before, but HTML is used for lots more than websites and browsers. (Examples that come to mind are email, desktop and mobile apps, ebooks, and digital signage.)

[troupo]

Yes. Unfortunately we've not inly settled for one of the worst systems, but we additionally further settled for limited subsets of it as well (email, ebooks)