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by wutbrodo 3998 days ago
It should be self-evident how wrong this is from the fact that UIs (web and otherwise) from (e.g.) the early 90s are pretty hideous (and much harder-to-use, in many cases)[1]. One has to balance between building for the present and moving the ecosystem and its capabilities forward.

[1] Note that this is an overlapping but different discussion from "the web was created for serving static pages and it should stick to that"