If the only thing being removed were <div> tags, which don't have structural or semantic meaning, it would probably be just as easy to parse for screen readers

If the only thing being removed were <div> tags, which don't have structural or semantic meaning, it would probably be just as easy to parse for screen readers and robots. Two problems I see: 1. Where you have a heading you may want it and its associated content wrapped in a <section>. Where you have a separated paragraph you really do probably want a <p>. So these newlines aren't always just replacing <div>s. The page has no structure except what can be derived from headings. 2. Wrapping everything in a <code> tag seems like it could cause issues. It would probably be better to use <main> and apply the clever one line of CSS mentioned in the post.