After removing the noise you can distill the semantic stuff where ever possible, like meta-deta from images, buttons, etc, and see some structures emerge like footers and nav and body.. And many times for the sake of SEO and accessibility, websites do adopt quite a bit of semantic HTML elements and annotations in respective tags..

What happened to using the semantic elements? Did that fall out of favor or the push for it get abandoned because popular frameworks just generate divs with semantic classes (hopefully)?