Sure, I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment you're expressing, I'm just saying that today, HTML forms aren't as tied to the backend as they used to be

Sure, I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment you're expressing, I'm just saying that today, HTML forms aren't as tied to the backend as they used to be. Though personally I wouldn't want to have to start adding ids and names to things in the markup just for Selenium to find them.