I think you’re overrating modern web design. For example recently I have been frustrated at the amount of web sites I have been on which “respond” to the geomet

I think you’re overrating modern web design. For example recently I have been frustrated at the amount of web sites I have been on which “respond” to the geometry of the browser by completely removing essential navigational elements of the site and giving the user no indication that anything is missing. This makes for example using the site in a web browser tiled to half the screen width on a laptop impossible. This site even works perfectly on mobile, because it doesn’t change to simplify itself to the point of being unusable, like many modern web sites do, often even refusing to stop doing so when choosing “request desktop site” in the mobile browser.