If you don't need it, what forces you to use any of it. Has the browser stopped accepting .js and .html files? It hasn't. Will we ever go back to where that was

If you don't need it, what forces you to use any of it. Has the browser stopped accepting .js and .html files? It hasn't. Will we ever go back to where that was all that was needed? I sure hope that will never happen, because there was nothing glorious or great about that time. It's a Freudian slip when someone thinks back and goes "oh how easy it was." It just wasn't. It used to be the most limited, restricted, crippled, tough and volatile environment possible. Nothing meant manual labour as much as the old web. From chasing dependencies by hand, fixing issues across browsers, nothing could be re-used, it was plain horrible.