I'm not referring to the HN audience; I mean the larger evergreen cohort of people in the world who are still building their mental model of how the web works.

I'm not referring to the HN audience; I mean the larger evergreen cohort of people in the world who are still building their mental model of how the web works. They will each eventually be doomed to the same misconceptions because it's a system full of inconsistencies and special cases.