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That's not at all what he said. He literally even said "He’s not wrong in principle."
If you don't understand the history of why something is the way it is you can't fix it. You can suggest your new "perfectly secured web site" but if Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Firefox, Apple, etc. don't agree on your new protocol then there's going to be exactly 1 person using it.
See also: Chesterton’s Fence.
I'd not heard of that before, thanks!