I think Justin's optimism is spot on. I just can't help but be excited about what comes next. I was there in the early days of Geocities.

And, fair disclosure, I'm not a developer, but I am an end-user of WordPress - my own client, so to speak - building and maintaining a personal expression of a pig predilection that (currently) uses my own crafted child version of Justin's Stargazer theme.

I firmly believe that the web will forever be awful, but wonderful, just like the humans who create it over and over again every day. I have come to suspect that there are many places on the web where sty and style might just be related. And I will continue to depend on WordPress to be my means to keep the web a little less Paris and a bit more Porkopolis.