What's worse is that it didn't used to. The current version is a rewrite, based on a wiki-interop framework (developed by the original wiki's creator, so it's not a hostile takeover, but rather an attempt to do stuff that wasn't possible originally).

For no apparent reason. Five years ago it was part of the world-wide web and open to mashups and automation, now everyone needs a custom deobfuscator (albeit a simple one).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8983158

The SPA rewrite of wiki was an extremely bizarre move and I'm still not sure why they did it. (For those who aren't aware, this site is the wiki - the original one, and was mindblowing in the 2000s.)