I think the downvotes may have been less about the point you're making and more about its delivery. While I generally agree with you, the rationale behind maki

I think the downvotes may have been less about the point you're making and more about its delivery. While I generally agree with you, the rationale behind making stricter markup is to ultimately push web developers to write cleaner code, which makes parsing easier, and the page load faster - so in the end it does come back to what the user wants. In reality not all web developers are so careful.