HTML as an authoring language is underrated, but several commenters are confusing "writing HTML" with the aesthetic of nearly unstyled HTML. I think this is happening because the post we're discussing is not itself an example of what the author is describing: it's authored in DWikiText.
An example (that I maintain) of what the author describes: https://www.bidadance.org. Each of the pages is just plain HTML on disk.
An example (that I maintain) of what the author describes: https://www.bidadance.org. Each of the pages is just plain HTML on disk.