> And not a word about discoverability?

The article ends with a list of web sites that you should check out. This is how discoverability worked in the early web days and that is how it can still work. People link to other pages. The joy of "surfing the web" is about starting somewhere and then walking off into some unforeseen direction to discover new places on the web.

Links were placed by humans. They were curated. They were organic. And they can still have these qualities today.