I tend to agree. I have the same reservations with HTTP2 to a lesser degree. I won’t deny that the complexity added by HTTP2 will greatly improve speeds in certain cases, and this may very well be needed to keep the greater interwebs working at comfortable speeds moving forward, but a part of me is greatly saddened by losing the sheer simplicity that is HTTP1.1.
the problem is that HTTP2 mostly does not bring the expected advantages that connection multiplexing promised, as HTTP/1.1 connection multiplexing over multiple tcp sockets are in many cases better performance wise. Only HTTP/3 with QUIC addresses this, so I have mixed feelings about HTTP/2.
Are we going to lose the simplicity of HTTP/1.1? I think that would only happen when we get servers that support only HTTP/2, and I hope those will be limited to hobbyist use for a while yet.
