Also they can only dread what they use. The question SO uses specifically asks only about things that you use extensively. That is what makes this interesting to me. It isn't people dreading APL because it looks funny, its people dreading something are using it day to day.
Html has a lot of flaws, but it's easy to learn, so it totally tracks to me that it could be in both categories. I wouldn't want to write a sizeable app in vanilla html, but I can't think of a simpler way to create cross-platform UIs