&gt; Quality plays a small role at best.<p>This is simply not true in the long-term. Good technologies survive because they are useful.<p>Of course quality is not <i>enough</i> to ensure success, but it sure as hell matters for long-term survival. Homer, Shakespeare and the wheel survived because they are very good &#x2F; useful. Are there lost Homers? Of course there are. Will the Web survive 100 years? I have no idea, and neither do you. A decade? Most likely.<p>Be careful with conflating what <i>is</i> with your idea of what something <i>should</i> be. If you think something sucks and work on making it better, that&#x27;s great! Keep doing it, and maybe someday we will have something that&#x27;s even better. But don&#x27;t diss the popular just because it isn&#x27;t ticking all of the &quot;it-should-be-this&quot; boxes.