It's less about the font itself and more about how people are using them. For some reason, people think that type on the web should be small and on top of that,

It's less about the font itself and more about how people are using them. For some reason, people think that type on the web should be small and on top of that, don't take font-smoothing into consideration. Adobe buys TypeKit and this is still the way they lay out web typography. One of my biggest gripes with [Adobe] is that for a company that tries to be an end-all be-all for designers and content creators, their application designs, splash screens, icons are all incredibly weak if not outright dated. If they don't even understand (or care) about the industry they're marketing to to do these things internally, how can I expect their tools to be the right solution?