The Internet is not the Web, also what platforms? Sure besides Geocities, many ISP's gave a few MBs for personal html files but for the most part you didn't had your own URL, now you can have that for a few pennies a month. But we're not playing web pages game anymore, it's interactivity bit times otherwise we feel bored without infinite scroll and even a regular forum doesn't cut it anymore (no one wants no register for yet another one).
> In the last two decades, custom stylesheets have become a dying breed.
I'm not so sure about it, at least not for the regular personal pages, you just don't find those as often with "the search engine". Try https://wiby.me/ to get a feel for it. Maybe we need to resurrect the gopher protocol and make the search unbiased again, hell yeah, Make the Search Great Again!