I think the bad “web” has a lot more to do with the business side of things than whatever development tools you use. If the website is free to use, it’s either a passion or community project or it sells you. Sometimes that works out sort of well in places like HN, and other times it works out less well like on the infinite amount of shitty news papers. But those news papers can be shitty in all technologies even in the physically printed form.

I do think we need a better tool for finding the passion projects. Because search engines have basically become the “portals” they replaced by curating search results into being about herding us toward sales, but I’m sure we’ll see a shift sooner or later. It’s sort of already happening with more and more people returning to things like news letters instead of reading blogs.