Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

Being nitpicky, and since the article itself focuses on things not inflicted on users, here are a few things it still inflicts on users:

- Changing line-height.

- Changing fonts (or trying to, if it is allowed in a web browser).

- Changing colors (likewise).

- Changing body's max-width, margins, paddings.

- Adding a mostly useless header.

I find these less annoying than the ones listed in the article, and they are easily mitigated by the reader view, disabled CSS, or custom global CSS, but there they are.

I think this is beyond being nitpicky.

I used to agree with you, but a pure text web looks like Gemini, which I abandoned after a few days of getting lost in endless identical looking blogs.

There is no reason that websites shouldn't have room for some creative expression. For as long as writing has existed, images, fonts, spacing, embellishment, borders, and generally every imaginable axis has been used as additional expression, beyond the literal meaning of the text.

The body width is necessary because web browsers have long since abandoned any pretense of developing html for the average joe. It is normal to use web browsers maximized, so without limiting the body width the text is ridiculously long and uncomfortable to read.