The author can want whatever the author wants, as I say repeatedly, it's just not of interest to me as a reader if the author is backed into a corner by a serie

The author can want whatever the author wants, as I say repeatedly, it's just not of interest to me as a reader if the author is backed into a corner by a series of bizarre lines in the sand on his part. The author is responding to a discourse that says "You should serve your website SSL-enabled" in a passionate enough way to write a blog post about why he shouldn't, and it turns out the reason why he shouldn't is more or less that he doesn't want to. OK. Cool. The choice to want to control everything (except all the things you don't fully control, like the domain name, the DNS system, and probably the SMTP server) means that there's a little overhead setting things up. This is known. It's not particularly interesting.