The fact that the Web (not the "internet") runs in debug mode is directly responsible for its popularity and accessibility. Anyone can look at a web page and l

The fact that the Web (not the "internet") runs in debug mode is directly responsible for its popularity and accessibility. Anyone can look at a web page and learn how it works. Anyone can copy bits and pieces of code from various places and put it together into a web page of their own. Most "web programmers" manage to make a living without ever having to learn a complicated protocol or trying to figure out what a long string of hexadecimal digits means. Easy to learn = more casual tinkerers = more people learning how to code, at least at a basic level. You could design perfectly efficient protocols and encoding formats, but if people don't use it, what's the point? HTTP/2 is a nice compromise. The web server and browser abstract away all of the binary layers, so most programmers only need to care about human-readable text.