Should Web Design Be Bare Bones?

Whaddya think, kids? “Now that things like Readability and Instapaper are dissolving all the bells and whistles off of every other kind of content… it’s worth asking whether or not what we’ve come to accept as good Web design accomplishes anything genuinely useful for a website’s best customers — the ones who obsessively check it throughout the day, the ones who read every word of an article, the ones who are most engaged with a site’s content.”