Except the protocol/format we use for communicating text in the public is terminally convoluted, requires executing arbitrary code, is laughably energy-ineffici

Except the protocol/format we use for communicating text in the public is terminally convoluted, requires executing arbitrary code, is laughably energy-inefficient and has only one or two apps left that can deal with it. When SGML on which HTML is based (also released in the 80s) was a "humanist" idea to prevent exactly that from happening.