> To be fair, not having any of those technologies is just a side effect of deciding to make a dead simple, spartan UI (which isn't a bad thing).
That's also why google.com was originally so simple, in stark contrast to their competitors of the day.
You can get away with very fast, very maintainable front-end code that doesn't need any special frameworks when you say no to modern tastes and features. More websites should really consider doing so.
One of the things that breaks my heart just a little is visiting these sites that load in 30ms and thinking that the Internet of 2019 could be largely like this and how amazing that would feel. Sure, there's lots of complex features we cherish having online, but those could all be hidden behind the main pages that are dead simple. Makes me think about how google.com is the gateway to a massive conglomerate of capability, web apps, features, etc. but the main page itself loads almost instantly.