Imagine it's 2007. You are not a web developer. You are not a programmer, either. But you do something you want to make available online. You built a site that

Imagine it's 2007. You are not a web developer. You are not a programmer, either. But you do something you want to make available online. You built a site that serves your needs, and used MooTools as part of the process. Or you hired someone to do it. It's probably a pretty simple site by the standards of someone from 2021 who routinely dumps ginormous piles of javascript onto people to create apps. But it does what you need. Whoever built it did a solid job. It has sat there continuing to do what it needs to do for a decade. It may not look like the current trends in web development, but you don't care - you still like the way it looks. It still serves its purpose. You're not a web developer, you have no need to rebuild it to show off how you can use this year's hot framework. You still update it regularly with new content, without ever touching the code. It hasn't broken, it hasn't become a spam link farm. And then along comes a new release of Mozilla and you start getting people bitching about your site being broke. Or, thankfully, because Mozilla decided to not make this name change, nothing happens, and you keep on having your website just work while you get on with doing whatever you built it to help support you doing. I'm pretty close to this description; I'm an artist, whose self-made personal site did use MooTools for a while, though that went away when I stopped using my own personal mods to an obscure image gallery package with some MooTools for spice in favor of Wordpress around 2011. I have dug into the site's code maybe a half dozen times in the intervening years, mostly to set up new styles for new comics projects, and recently to replace the ten-year-old front page hero image and freshen up a few colors to match it. Sacrificing this "simple" name would have affected a whole lot more people than you think it would. (More succinctly, consider this line from the "Why don't we just keep the existing name and break the Web?" section (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate#break-the-web https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate...): As it turns out, “don’t break the Web” is the number one design principle for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and any other standard that’s widely used on the Web. With a link in there to a W3C document on the core ideas for guiding the evolution of HTML that expands on this.)