there are no good browsers and no good search engines anymore, now is the time for personal sites and cool webrings to shine.
To bring those back you need to make them "easy" as well.
@Polychrome @ov I don't think it was ever that simple, to be honest; I've seen a lot of things over time get replaced by 'easier' options only to become even more hated after a while, because it turns out that the "easy" part was largely just framing and not actual ease of use.
Sure, there needs to be a certain baseline accessibility and ease of use for something to become widely used, but I'm not convinced that that baseline is anywhere near as high as is commonly believed, certainly not to the point that it rules out other things people might value in a system. A lot of it is just in presentation.
@Polychrome @ov (To be clear on this: the vast majority of FOSS stuff that is available today does not meet that lower baseline either, so this is not a defense of those things either)
