I mean, imho RDF isn't the problem. RDF itself is very simple. As you correctly point out, the stack is overcomplicated. > Instead of redirecting their efforts

I mean, imho RDF isn't the problem. RDF itself is very simple. As you correctly point out, the stack is overcomplicated. > Instead of redirecting their efforts to a more general graph model which has actual hype and use by developers neo4j is basically this. You can also load RDF into neo4j using neosemantics and query it using Cypher instead of using a conventional triplestore with SPARQL, which is nice.