I always preferred it that way myself. Used netobjects Fusion for years and many sites. From what I remember, the push for html5 and super lean / clean / and '

I always preferred it that way myself. Used netobjects Fusion for years and many sites. From what I remember, the push for html5 and super lean / clean / and 'validating code' for google search results made it difficult for the older tools to stay in favor. Also the move to mobile.. and not just "m.site" - making so javacript / bootstrap type things came to be favored for a while (lack of grid / flex in browsers at the time) - which mostly required text editors instead of wysiwyg. the business models for investing in software were shaping cloud things around that time (some say for better, I say for worse) - so webflow, wordpress, adobe cloud everything, and similar had a chance to do the things that stand alone download and own software could of been doing. Faster internet being more prevalent and such of course helped with these things. I've been itching to spend a couple hours testing pinegrow site building ( https://pinegrow.com https://pinegrow.com ) to see if it is reminiscent of the netobjects days.. and now that wordpress is getting increasingly painful to use and maintain, I'll likely get to that sooner than later.