The phrases "simple" and "news websites" don't combine well these days. Even the NPR website downloads 13.2 MB of content over 91 individual requests, and takes just over 3.6 seconds to load (6.5 to finish).

- CSS Stylesheets: 3

- Animated gifs: 1

- Individual JS files: 11 (around 2MB of JS decompressed (but not un-minimized))

- Asynchronous Requests: 14 (and counting)

And that's with uBlock Origin blocking 12 different ad requests.

That's not simple in any form. So, the possibility of something on this page breaking? High. There's a lot of surface area for things to break over time. And that's not counting what happens when the NPR's internal APIs change for those asynchronous requests.