[NoGravitas]

Part of #5, "easy to monetize" leads inevitably to "easy to enshittify". I think this is a point that's not generally well enough understood. If a platform emphasizes monetization, its early adopters will all be grifters and it will provide no benefit to anyone else (cf blockchain).

Gemini and Gopher fail #4 because they aren't application platforms. But I think we probably need to step back and rethink the "deliver sandboxed application that you run automatically" use case. If we really want to still do that, we might want to design something for that purpose from the start. But we might also come to the conclusion that it's fundamentally not a good idea.

[oso2k]

I'd presume we're almost all using the Web primarily on some employer's dime (except where we are self-employed but it still applies). Prior to the Web 1.0, I remember interacting with people/managers that discouraged reading email or news or forums or other casual/non-work uses of the Web. I remember articles about employers allowing their programmers to read their email "up to" 2 hours per day. Now we're expected to have rapid response/access to email, slack, SMS, etc.

I believe this is because the commercialization/monetization of Web usage is beneficial to commercial entities. If that isn't possible, then the few who build the Web aren't able to build it in the first place. It's akin OSS and concepts of commercialization in the GPL. You can't create equity if there is no method to transfer value.