Exactly. This is one of the fundamental things that I never understood about Gemini. It’s simply a “web” that doesn’t support some of the features of the modern web that the author finds objectionable. I have no problem with anyone doing that or with the author’s objections but they did a lot of work to do what could have simply been done with a specific set of tools and “rules” applied to the existing HTTP/HTML web.

• Create a standard for what subset of HTML standards are supported and maybe define some headers for these pages to use to enable crawlers to identify them
• Build some browsers that only support the standard subset
• Build search engines that only index pages that contain the smolweb headers defined in the standard
• ???
• Profit

Yeah, neither is great. Needs to be called something like “Employee Business Relations” maybe?

100%. The rebranding of some HR departments as “People Officers” or “People Team” drives me bonkers. When push comes to shove, they will always protect the interests of the business before the interests of the employee. Full stop.