Agreed. ~ 15 yrs ago I started worrying somehow I wasn't with the program, just writing html and no code of scripts...
Came to my senses and realized I write documents. Doubled down on the text and manage a couple sites, Ks of pages of html5 and css, not even a line of JavaScript. You could print it out. 22 years worth.
Got some perl scripts to walk through it and change and fix.
Instantly portable, instantly compatible, text and images and pdf and some bits video.
When WordPress came out I looked at it, thought 'huh, it's just s proprietary script', of you gotta learn an annoying script, might as well be html and css.
Css can be annoying! Lol