I guess the problem is one of education. For those of us that work with the web everyday we maybe assume users are better informed than they actually are.

Add to this the number of web design companies that themselves have hardly moved forward and embraced new web standards, the marketing muscle of Microsoft, Dreamweaver and Adobe etc and its not difficult to see where wrong decisions are made.

Where does the fault lie, I would have to say it’s up to everyone involved in web standards, open source tools and the like to make a better job of getting their message across and beyond the web developer community – Certainly most of the clients I visit have a less Knowledge than they think they do and its pretty rare they would have heard of software such as WordPress