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Validation has been unimportant for about 20 years. That has nothing to do with why websites are bad nowadays.

Accessibility?

No one said its the reason, its just sign of how bad stuff is.

No it's not, validators are extremely outdated. It's not "bad" to forget to close the body tag, it actually doesn't matter at all.

"Validators are extremely outdated therefore not following HTML specification doesn't matter" :facepalm: