Strawman is right. In my eyes acid3 is meaningless. You heard correctly, I said meaningless. Web 2.0 and all that is bells and whistles and meaningless window dressing that maybe matters to HTML/XML and CSS and Java graphic designer geeks. Who cares if a browser can do that . I am more concerned with REAL WORLD performance. Again acid3 means nothing in regard to REAL performance.
It's just a test of compliance (standards), not performance (speed). I agree it's meaningless with regard to speed.
But I think you're being silly saying that complex webpage formatting is not of interest to people surfing the web. Are you stuck in the mid-90's or something?