Agree. The 90's and early/mid 00's Web brought most community-driven innovations in UI and community interaction idioms that the few sites of today's centralize

Agree. The 90's and early/mid 00's Web brought most community-driven innovations in UI and community interaction idioms that the few sites of today's centralized Web merely rehash. And evolution in markup languages was envisioned to liberate users from proprietary and idiosyncratic front-end tech. It wasn't the Web that brought this to an end, but the power grab of "browser vendors" coupled with the naivite/corruptness of 2010's startup scene.