Why don't websites look like this anymore

I kinda prefer this tbh https://arngren.net/

be the html.energy u want to see in the world

We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.

For me, burden of knowledge. I have all these dope skills, so I'm predisposed to make something fancy.

I remember this site when I learned all the patterns

A good part behind this design was HTML: At the time, the only way to do some page formatting was tables. Everything was tables, and tables inside tables. There was no CSS, so what you could play with was borders (color, thickness), column/row span of cells and cell padding.

I am sure the bitcoin puppet website look like that still