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> how HN user prefers sites with less CSS

That's not what people here are saying, though. Indeed, even your parent comment said how he misses a small HTML pages with CSS. Most engineers would be totally fine with HTML and a modest payload of nice, modern CSS styling, a perhaps a small bit of non-required progressively enhancing JS.

Our problem is with huge JS frameworks used in sites that aren't actual web applications (e.g., Gmail), but rather web sites (like news sites). And I say this as someone who has primarily made my living the past 5 years as a "frontend engineer" (ie, JS programmer). JS frameworks can be wonderful for actual web applications, but they're way overkill for documents online for reading (and also make the experience worse for the reader).

Oh, and we also hate of dozens/hundreds of kb of unneeded font downloads.

Also, for the record, I'm a big fan of (appropriate use of) white space and color. I definitely come down heavily on the side of bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com (vs motherfuckingwebsite.com).