But it wasn't the right thing. That bureaucracy would have saved the world billions upon billions of useless HTTP GET requests that just return 404s. It was relatively minor to him only because he only thought about it on a small scale. But when you're talking about the web, you have to take the full scale into account.

And no, it's not really a crisis-level issue. The modern web is full of hundreds of little annoyances, it's pretty much the nature of the game. But I felt it was on-topic all the same.

But yeah, complaining about it here certainly isn't going to change anything; and I'll agree that the story behind it was interesting to hear even if I despise the result of it.