Kudos to every effot to bring a decent Web back:
"The thing is, HTML never went anywhere. It’s still here, albeit buried and abstracted under further layers of inaccessible, hostile, or complicated cruft. We need to make it the default again, where the dynamic overlays are additive, not essential."
Egads, NO.
CMS is so much better (and, yes, there are ones that do NOT use a database).
Hell, I would argue that CSS was when all hell broke loose. CSS is like wanting to move something from here to there and just go: fuuuuck.
It’s neither decent nor intuitive as HTML is neither decent nor intuitive.
When people argue it is I laugh. How many exceptions are there for all the different browsers? How many “browser dependent” are there in the specs?
Which HTML are we talking about?
@feloneouscat ask that guy, not me. Me, I just love the principle. Current web development environments, libraries, tools, whatever... are embarrasingly overbuilt
Personally, I would argue that it’s because the initial design is awful.
When you try to “fix” something that has a bad design in the first place, of course you will get what we have today.
I’m not usually a proponent of “burn it all down” but the Web is a disaster.