Perhaps I'm a luddite, but I miss the good old days of 'Web 1.0' (whatever that means) where things were simpler and things were not quite so easy.
Having to do everything in HTML meant that people had to put in the effort to publish to the web. Perhaps, it is the rose tinted specs I'm wearing right now, but back in the day people seemed to take more pride in what they put on the web. Yeah, you had the {bleep}s still, and you had geocities. But it's so easy now for people to dump any old {bleep} on the web, that they do. As Moto said, people are filling the web with every insignificant detail, every throw-away thought and worse they're presenting it as if it is important fact.
