If you care about your readers, your site should probably have navigation links, maybe even search and an RSS feed. So now you are talking about editing lots of things by hand or moving to some kind of automation. If you like coding HTML by hand, that's great, do it, but there's also nothing wrong with having some infrastructure to build navigation, indices, etc. HTML is analogous to other markup languages, such as latex or markdown, and has its strengths and weaknesses. There is nothing inherently virtuous about it.<p>Not trying to be harsh but I feel like the "purist" opinion presented in the article is an affect which can only be expressed about sites unburdened by the presence of or desire for readers.