Yay! This post. A mathy-engineering type condescendingly putting down services with a billion users while the world communicates and shares things with each other on FaceTwitter (I see what you did there, the services are the same functionally, so why differentiate them? very clever). While they're sitting around being too good for these services for the masses, the masses are being entertained, meeting new people, and staying in touch with old acquaintances, and enjoying themselves. Also not thinking a lick of the engineer who is too good to use their services.
>The web is a dumbed down version of older hypertext systems and hasn't shaken that legacy in 25 years.... You can fool yourself about worse is better while making a few bucks.
Yep. Worse is better because all of these things are just iterations on the thing you originally saw, which is obviously the pinnacle of the web. It's like people who move to New York City and expect the city to stay exactly the way it was when they first became emotionally attached to it. Or people who join reddit and complain about it going to shit because it's different from when they joined it. The web wasn't in some ideal state that you happened to come across and get in with while it was good. The one constant of the internet and the web is how it evolves and changes.