Loads of these websites are valid businesses and the “minimal” visual aesthetic serves their purpose.<p>Yet loads of comments here criticise them because they are not “minimal” in use of resource (defaults), “minimal” in use of information presentation, or “minimal” in structure, as if these are the only true minimal.<p>All these websites would fail their business intent if they stripped back to these ideals (a branding agency with no css: c’mon), and this gallery would fail, and this gallery wouldn’t have generated the interest to make the front page of hacker news.<p>I for one appreciate this type of content in the hacker news mix. But the comments can often be blinked engineering drivel.