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Note that Japanese and Chinese already changed to commonly use horizontal left-to-right text (in addition to vertical top-to-bottom/right-to-left text, which is still usual especially in "proper published typesetting") in large part because computers handled that much better for decades.

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It's not so much that because they handled it better, but because that was how they handled it. Even to this day vertical text layout in CSS is primitive.

Early Japanese on computers also used half-width kana but now it's all properly fullwidth.

Don't mistake technical limitations for choice.

I wonder if there's any Japanese sites out there that fully use the traditional style? Text top to botttom, right to left, and with the horizontal axis unbound (to the left) instead of the vertical.

I'm sure there are some extremely design-heavy sites that do it, but by then you would be fighting the DOM/CSS pretty hard, as default behaviors for stuff like underline position and 縦中横 (short bursts of horiz text within vertical text, for things like two-digit numbers) seem to be sketchy at best, and many things still don't seem to be uniform across browsers. UX would be affected as well, as things like text selection or right-clicking would feel quite awkward as it is so exceedingly rare. While us Japanese are fully capable of reading both horizontally+LtR and vertically+RtL, it's not in our expectations for the latter to appear in online web text.

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