Wouldn't the first stable release of HTML count as "a drastically simpler set of web standards" together with the fact that any browser should support it? Ever

Wouldn't the first stable release of HTML count as "a drastically simpler set of web standards" together with the fact that any browser should support it? Everything else is to me a matter of compression. Netflix's success seemed to me 50% good marketing and content and 50% compression and data handling. It is wrong to think that a webpage has some sort of canonical view on it. And FB, Twitter and even Forbes is all about generating the impression of group perspective being one thing as opposed to be views on one, perhaps elusive, thing.