The current state of the web is the result of too many cooks in the kitchen. Nobody is ever willing to stand up and say no to countless new additions that often simply replicate old behavior, or don't add anything compelling or likely to ever be used by others. We even have outright gags in the official specs, like the 418 response.

It's already too late to make HTTP something sane. What we need are developers who understand and appreciate simplicity and minimalism, to make something awesome with a chance of actually catching on. (Please don't xkcd/927 me.) And they'll have to be fierce in protecting it against third-party extensions (which may not even be possible with something this popular.)

That's unlikely to happen, so I guess we'll just keep playing this perverted game of Jenga ad infinitum.