I genuinely, truly don't understand why there is so much push for fancy, resource-hogging web pages when the majority of websites exist just to collect data fro

I genuinely, truly don't understand why there is so much push for fancy, resource-hogging web pages when the majority of websites exist just to collect data from html and store them in csv. Like, ok, sure you can't port Quake to HTML and csv but you certainly need 1/10th the amount of resources to run Quake compared to say, Discord.