Because very few kinds of content benefit from purely text display. Books, documents, blog posts, news, etc all benefit massively from inline images, animations, and videos. It seems that Gemini users wanted to avoid ad tech and commercialization and lost all visual communication in the process.
Re:Gemini is a little gem
by throw10920 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:24PM
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Exactly - that's why I like the use of "anti-intellectual" as an adjective for Gemini - Gemini's design is anti-conducive to thought and information transfer because of the massive impact of mathematical notation, images, and animations.
I love the idea of a set of technologies targeted at text, and only text.
Nobody is saying you can't have the web. I'm not giving it up.
On the other hand, I welcome the a place I can go and not being accosted by ads, images, videos and cookie banners. A place where content is king.