Shouldn't that somewhat be the point, though? Shouldn't we have control over the look & feel, layout, design of the websites we visit? I'm feeling like you did

Shouldn't that somewhat be the point, though? Shouldn't we have control over the look & feel, layout, design of the websites we visit? I'm feeling like you did exactly what you should have done. You chose to read the site in a style (Reader Mode) that benefits you. Maybe someone else chooses a style, set of fonts, or overrides the margins manually. I think we've gone too far with HTML styling. I'd much prefer unstyled semantic markup and then let my theme choices display the content. Early HTML was quite a bit more like this. Gopher protocol and Project Gemini might be other examples of content without "design."