Maybe it’s because my brain is tired, but I had to reread the article several times to understand that the takeaway isn’t about something counterintuitive about

Maybe it’s because my brain is tired, but I had to reread the article several times to understand that the takeaway isn’t about something counterintuitive about the behavior of web workers, but about counterintuitive behavior discovered in their own app when attempting to apply web workers to solve a then-misunderstood problem. Definitely not a better title, but a clearer synopsis: web workers [were] not the [appropriate solution to the problem we set out to solve, in fact their constraints helped us discover an extant problem and address it. Nothing peculiar or otherwise about web workers was implicated]. It’s possible this realization has broader value: digging in to better understand a problem and finding the appropriate solution is different than you presupposed are important skills! But I do think the title and summary do it a disservice. And I’m wary of how that might mistakenly influence people to reflexively dismiss web workers for appropriate use cases.