In terms of accessibility I’m not sure we’ve done better than GeoCities and AngelFire. WYSIWYG page design tools have gotten better, but those are only “necessary” because page designs have become more complicated and simple, less “professional” styling has fallen out of popularity outside of technical circles.

Those old page hosting services also served to get non-technical users to dip their toes into writing HTML, setting them on a path of learning, whereas newer page hosting services are either skewed no-code (e.g SquareSpace) or technical (e.g. GitHub Pages and Netlify) with little in-between, which keeps non-technical users locked into the WYSIWYG tools to a greater extent.