So IE's short-lived superiority negates the many many subsequent years that followed (the dark days) in which it was a stinking dead weight around the neck of e

So IE's short-lived superiority negates the many many subsequent years that followed (the dark days) in which it was a stinking dead weight around the neck of every web developer on the planet? The only double-think and belief staggering in play here is the idea that a rapidly evolving, open-source and highly standard compliant modern browser (Chrome) is anything like IE at any point in its history except perhaps the present day.