[oneeyedpigeon]

Although I mainly agree with you — I pretty much take exactly that minimalist approach with my own site — I think you're being a bit unfair on Bootstrap. Using just your example tags in conjunction with Bootstrap is perfectly acceptable, and it would only really take a single DIV (container) to wrap the content. Bootstrap gets more complicated when it comes to layout, navigation, and additional content, though, but this also becomes an issue in plain HTML anyway.

I would, though, like a really good 'minimalist' framework that just works — almost as a reset — with no classes at all. '<table class="table">' has always bugged me in Bootstrap, and there are other examples with certainly feel overengineered, that lead to spaghetti HTML.

[johnday]

The difficulty here is that the word "div" is still highly overloaded in CSS. That said, I can probably put something together which satisfies what you're asking for - a set of "sensible defaults", like halfway between normalize.css and bulma. It might be an interesting design challenge!