> We'd all be better off if the web still looked like 2004, and the users would be fine with it too - they only care about "modern design" as a proxy for "this

> We'd all be better off if the web still looked like 2004, and the users would be fine with it too - they only care about "modern design" as a proxy for "this is an actively maintained product". You're declaring this based on what, exactly?