Completely agree with your general gist. As someone who built websites in the 1990s, I too am amazed by how hard it still is to do something as ostensibly simp

Completely agree with your general gist. As someone who built websites in the 1990s, I too am amazed by how hard it still is to do something as ostensibly simple as publish text. My conclusion is this: DNS and hosting are just inappropriate overkill for individuals. There's the setup hurdle, then the ongoing security and maintenance of software, and finally the problem that hosting is just fragile, with no internal inertia - if you stop paying, your site goes away or gets squatted. All this just to have one's own domain? In the end, for any site, the only link that will survive is the one on the Internet Archive. I now tend to the view that domains and hosting and software maintenance are best left to organizations. Individuals should instead pool their resources and publish on shared platforms. There's no reason these need be corporate. The fediverse, for instance, is giving us new publishing options almost every day.