I think you're much too generous. You can look at political decisions in most countries and see that politicians don't, on average, understand economics. For

I think you're much too generous. You can look at political decisions in most countries and see that politicians don't, on average, understand economics. For that matter, a great many economic theories (which are often presented as facts) don't hold up when tested. In summary, economics is hard. But making something (internet/web) increasingly unusable is just pure ignorance.