You sound like a "get off my lawn type of person"... let's take a look at the dependencies: "animate.css" - as the name would imply, this is for css animations

You sound like a "get off my lawn type of person"... let's take a look at the dependencies: "animate.css" - as the name would imply, this is for css animations. "font-awesome" - provides icons for vector graphics "waypoints" - a easy way to trigger a function when you scroll to an element This doesn't seem like "bloat". It's not like they used a full fledged framework like React. And, I think it would be pretty hard to replicate this site with "just one html file". I'm sure its possible to make something similar without these 3 dependencies, but it would 1] be a lot harder and 2] probably not look as good