>Just as an aside, something I've found funny for a long time is that I get quite a bit of hate mail about the styling on this page (and a similar volume of appreciation mail)

Yes! I've definitely felt like this while using his website. Of course, today I just fixed it with

main { max-width: 720px; margin: 0 auto; }

but tbh, I don't want to install an extension to customise the css on this one site...