I don’t dislike the web. Quite the opposite, in fact. It’s got serious problems that tend to get swept under the rug and ignored as the industry churns away though, and those problems aren’t going to be fixed if nobody is talking about them. These aren’t protests against the web, but rather against the direction its development has taken in the past decade and change (one might note that this expression of dissatisfaction was much more rare in say 2007).

The web is great, but it’s not (yet) a panacea and it can’t become one without pressure to improve.