The original model for web content distribution wasn't designed with Cloudflare style reverse proxies and they weren't a thing until much later. The original model is for the most part dead, sans some quiet corners here and there.

The original model for web didn't include REST style API calls.

A new model designed holistically for content distribution, with a hardened standardized spec for the API calls part, something that by design entirely shirks today's daily challenges, is necessary.

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> Or just come back read the comments on hn for that article.

Same lol