Exactly this. People need to think critically and not just blindly follow whatever some popular bloggers are saying. It's the same today though - half of HN is

Exactly this. People need to think critically and not just blindly follow whatever some popular bloggers are saying. It's the same today though - half of HN is utterly convinced rebellious technologies like HTMX are going to save us from the evil of front-end libraries. People adopt guides or entire technologies without ever actually building something significant with them.