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Here is an unpopular opinion: Maybe we should chill down on the constant innovation of "the web". I think we are at the point that we need some stablity, such that technologies (and companies!) build on top of it get some time to focus on maintainability, safety and usability instead of having to constantly spend time playing catch up.

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I wouldn't say it is an unpopular opinion. I can imagine most have had a similar thought at one point or the other about some technology.

But what looks like constant innovation to one, is probably a long awaited feature to someone else.

Don't feel like you have to catch up. You don't have to (and probably can't) follow every single innovation. Rather try to limit what you follow. Yes, you might miss out on things, but that's happening anyway.

It's not unpopular but unrealistic. It's like asking scientists to "improve, standarize and organize" what exists instead of seeking new knowledge and making more experiments that confuse everyone even further.

You can't force companies to stop innovating. Specially when history shows that, the best innovations survive in a sort of tech-evolutionary process.

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