Comment by Hendrikto

Web standards are in the same boat as C++. They can never really deprecate anything, but they want shiny new things, so they just add and add on top of the pile.

Every feature sounds great in isolation, but in aggregate they become a moloch.

Then people say “modern CSS is great, you just have to pick the ‘good subset’.”, but then nobody can agree what that subset should be, and everybody else uses a different subset.

LLMs also contribute to this, as 90% of what’s available on the web is considered outdated now, but that is the majority of training data.