Like a lot of things a decade and a half ago, the W3C was pushing a good idea to the point of it being an unrealistic ideal, in an environment where most people

Like a lot of things a decade and a half ago, the W3C was pushing a good idea to the point of it being an unrealistic ideal, in an environment where most people were doing the exact wrong/opposite thing. Now the situation is different, and a lot of these messages have finally sunk into the mainstream. I think you're right; there's no need for an army of purists to keep driving these points home. We get it, we know where the trade-offs are. This needs to be interpreted in a larger context of what was going on at the time.