Like most people I gave up on the whole semantic pedantry a long time do. Correct header ordering, basic semantics like <nav>: sure, that's great. But "no <p> i

Like most people I gave up on the whole semantic pedantry a long time do. Correct header ordering, basic semantics like <nav>: sure, that's great. But "no <p> inside <dt> allowed!" just makes no real sense and is exceedingly pedantic. The validator badges were kind of a backlash against the tag soup of the day; part of the reason for that was that everyone who knew how to program a VCR could get employed as a "webmaster" in those days, but also because the authoring tools for non-tech authors weren't as good. HN sees a lot of posts from non-tech people, often written on WordPress, Medium, or whatnot. 25 years ago it would more likely have been "tag-soup'd" by some non-tech person who just learned a bit of HTML.