@squirrel The peak of interest in Gemini passed around that 2 years ago mark. The idea of "scrap this edifice and let's see if we can do without" is not currently in zeitgeist, and the AI debacle became the trendy thing. (and stole the "Gemini" name too)

When the AI bubble explodes, I expect we'll see another wave of interest.

@budget_biochemist There was a technical reason, though. It was specifically that HTTP/HTML have become too extensive to actually implement afresh and consumed everything. Making something impossible to extend beyond a certain point was the explicitly stated goal, and that goal is impossible to reach with a defined subset of HTTP/HTML, precisely because it would be a subset, and thus the extant superset would be its extension.

It's a very (and needlessly) radical logic, but it is consistent.