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> JS is forced everywhere

I think this has a lot to do with it, interestingly. The web has become so ubiquitous, and the major players are so resourced, that the barrier to entry can seem really high. Maybe I'm wrong, but my perception is that potential customers wouldn't take a second glance at my sight if it were plain html with minimal CSS and didn't render perfectly on mobile.

> I am glad I don't do web GUIs

Same.

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You can make a very lovely site with just HTML and CSS! CSS is extremely powerful by itself. As long as you don’t need any dynamic content or dynamic UI, you can likely avoid JS entirely :)

You can, but if you’re doing any sort of non-static website then you still have complexities in the backend to deal with. (For static sites, I fully agree that HTML and CSS are more than enough most of the time; at least, they’re good enough for my website!)

> As long as you don’t need any dynamic content or dynamic UI

People seem to be ordering more of that, not less. Look at Reddit. They have all manner of stupid animations now.

You can do all kinds of stupid animations with pure CSS.

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