"Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.
Pretending that one needs a team of professionals to put simple articles online will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Overcomplicating the web means lifting up the ladder that used to make it possible for people to teach themselves and surprise everyone with unexpected new ideas."
idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
I agree to an extent, but I'm not sure it's any harder than it used to be to actually put stuff on the web. Certainly not text-based content anyway. I could still have a workflow the same today as when I set up my first blog in the early 00's.
Also, myself from back then would have been overjoyed at the amount of resources that are around now to teach you how to use it all.
