Fair enough. I'll try to tie it back to the mono-culture question. The primary reason why the hellscape was bad, and remained bad for so long, was because we h

Fair enough. I'll try to tie it back to the mono-culture question. The primary reason why the hellscape was bad, and remained bad for so long, was because we had a single "winner" of the browser wars. Microsoft won and they immediately tried to strangle the web for years. There were no alternative browsers for a long time to provide some kind of competition which might improve the matter. Sure, we could just test on IE and only support IE, but it was still an awful browser and MS wanted it that way. The point is that the bad "technical" level situation was sustained by the browser political mono-culture. I'm somewhat positive now about the current situation with MS getting more involved because it will add more diversity to our current political browser situation. This should translate into better results for everyone on all levels, technical, user, privacy (I hope), etc. So maybe from a pure browser engine point of view there is the same or less diversity, but this situation is very different from the early 2000s one.