Well there are surely other informal ways of doing 'ontology'. The point being - more rigorous methods can definitely be valuable in areas, and I don't think i

Well there are surely other informal ways of doing 'ontology'. The point being - more rigorous methods can definitely be valuable in areas, and I don't think it's a good idea to ignore this fact. It's a bygone issue because there wasn't a critical mass in place to make it work, but there could be.