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Felix Salmon makes the economic case for full rather than partial RSS feeds. Amen. You might also just make the don't needlessly harass people trying to read what you write case, which I guess is what his economic case boils down to.
I'm still not on board, but Adobe is building some impressive web development tools. Their latest release preview (release some time next year) is Thermo, a graphical editing environment aimed at bridging the gap between old style (photoshop) designers and web coders.
You just import a photoshop mock-up of a web page (what can now be more and more thought of as a web application user interface,) and Thermo understands all the layers and provides a 'convert artwork to...' command which automatically converts, say, a dummy text input field from the mock up into a real text input field (or button, check box, combo box, date picker, color field, etc...)
Sounds good for big shops with more graphic know how than web knowledge. Not sure I want all those people being able to compete with me (and it's not clear that Thermo will actually let them and/or if it will just end up enabling a lot of half baked web apps in a Visual Basic sort of way,) but I have to admit that Adobe is cranking out a lot of cool sounding tools.