What pulled me to DNS as a replacement was mostly that DNS is distributed, DNS servers get patched quickly as they are expected to be on the internet and people are just connecting to their local resolver vs. connecting to a port on someones workstation or server. Even if the idea never takes off I could see using it as a niche status update for myself even if nobody ever sees it.

Something ironic about pure text, status info, cgi-bin being replaced

The site I hosted this article on is a CGI script. One day small sites devoid of a CDN could make a come-back but that's a bigger topic that may depend on some societal screws to be tightened a bit more.