Because they enabled too many people to have a web presence independent of social media, and therefore outside of the technosurveillance apparatus of Google/Met

Because they enabled too many people to have a web presence independent of social media, and therefore outside of the technosurveillance apparatus of Google/Meta/Amazon/Microsoft. There’s a healthy appetite for WYSIWYG editors still, but nobody wants to make anything that simple anymore. It’s all about building moats, using the latest frameworks, and ultra-slick designs with spy pixels and a deluge of cookies. Everything must be in a CMS, on a hosting provider, with load balancers and CDNs, and saddled with pop-ups, pop-ins, chat boxes, e-mail signups, metric collection, data hoarding, and third-party tie-ins.