I did this for a time and had attempted to commit to staying “no build tools” but after writing a few blog posts and needing to move content of the post around

I did this for a time and had attempted to commit to staying “no build tools” but after writing a few blog posts and needing to move content of the post around as I was writing it, I gave up the masochism. I do think that it’s important to know HTML as a web developer, and to get your feet wet sometimes, but unless you’re really able to deal with the genuine annoyance of writing only HTML and are doing it for puritanical reasons I don’t think there’s any real reason not to use a tool, especially if you plan to add things to your website.