The best part about a personal website is that you can do whatever you want. A part of my mind is more convinced by the day that people don't want all this com

The best part about a personal website is that you can do whatever you want. A part of my mind is more convinced by the day that people don't want all this complexity and the AI nonsense might be the final straw. By comparison, just writing the damn HTML yourself is a breeze. I get that most people don't really want to write code, but I'd compare it to cooking. You don't have to be a chef just to eat a decent meal made the way you like. No, what's really wrong here is a lack of simple build tools and collections of stable libraries for web that don't try to lock you in. This is what pushes people to use crapware instead. I can't find a decent pre-made pizza crust at the grocery store either, so sometimes I just order delivery instead of kneading dough.