That's one of the reasons I like 'em. And this is a designer talking! Sure, a nice simple base CSS could fix line width, letterspacing, general kerning... but I'd much rather take plain old HTML that I can access from pretty much any browser on any OS anywhere in the world, than the Javascript-fueled "immersive" websites laaaarge images and fancy effects anyday.
Having said that, of course, I should concede that the choice isn't binary. Still.