Aesthetics are not as subjective as you seem to think. I am not sitting on a high-horse here; I argue closer to the opposite. My assertion that contemporary we

Aesthetics are not as subjective as you seem to think. I am not sitting on a high-horse here; I argue closer to the opposite. My assertion that contemporary web design is affect-laden has proof in the pudding. It is ridden with commercial "trend" and "delight". Contemporary web design lacks concern for either content or form. It is a maze of 'interactive expressionism'. I would go as far as to say it bears some responsibility for the current ICO bubble, for example; the "whitepaper" being the only lucid concept (form of content) in a sea of slivering serpents. Of course technical whitepapers are not new but their declarative function is being psychologically undermined by their symbolic form. How is this possible? It is a function of decadence, a delusion of form and meaning. >I believe it is quite possible to have a site thay is both well designed and which hosts content of high intellectual value. You won't find anyone on the internet to argue with this statement, of course. I agree. I think hackernews.come has done about as good of job as any by acknowledging 'form' as necessary context for intellectual 'content'. Your issue is with what "well designed" means. See above.