I've long thought about this too. Eventually I've come to the conclusion that CSS Zen Garden was more about "Hey you can do all of this with pure CSS" than it was "You should do it this way". At the time that I discovered Zen Garden, CSS was in it's more early, primitive days. As a front-end developer, it was easy to say "I can't achieve this design without changing the HTML Structure". Zen Garden showed us that this was just an excuse, (just about) any design could be achieved without a requirement to fundamentally change the HTML of the page. It was eye-opening to see some of the ways theme authors rearranged content, broke down those box boundaries, and used design tricks that stretched the limits of CSS and HTML in that era.
It was awfully inspiring, and I think the point was never - "this is the way you should encode pages" it was more about taking excuses away.
There are a lot of extensions built for networking professionals (recruiters, marketers, sales people) that automate browser behavior on LinkedIn in an attempt to drum up attention. For example: automatically viewing profiles of candidates, so that the candidate sees the recruiter/sales person on their "who's viewed my profile" page.
A cursory google-search for something like "linkedin browser plugin" yields tons of these types of products.
I'm not a fire expert, but I do think it's short-sighted to put so much attention on how fires start, when the ultimate size and impact of a wildfire depends so much on the environment in which the fire grows and sustains.
To me it's a lot like blaming a web service outage on a mistake by a single developer, when there are other questions like- how might our system have allowed for the introduction of a bug? What measures could have been taken to contain bugs? I feel like the software industry understands this, I wonder if this lesson could be translated to how we talk about wildfires.
It was awfully inspiring, and I think the point was never - "this is the way you should encode pages" it was more about taking excuses away.