Honestly, I wish websites here were more information-dense. Many sites seem to have gone all-in on adding as much whitespace as possible, making them much harder to use on (say) smaller laptops.
This is what killed Digg, and is killing Reddit, under Reddit's new design. I have posted quite a bit about how old.reddit is so much more important because with the +RES you can tweak the overall information density, as well as visual guides to where you are in the thread (the border highlighters to nesting comments: https://i.imgur.com/oWiweis.png
And when coupled with hover zoom (or whatever extension you like) allows you to not even click on an image: https://i.imgur.com/nkvPUb4.jpg)
And then, either turn off thumbnails in titles and you get a great density that allows one to consume more info -- this is why Digg died, and Reddit is "Diggifying" them selves with their lame new layout -- which Ironically is how reddit had a huge spike in users after digg 2.0 --> Also whatever happened to Kevin whatever from Digg who was on a bunch of magazine for being some web visionary, and now he has dissipated...
He went on to become a crypto bro
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/27/kevin-rose-nfts-cyber-crime...
Information dense is the goal but a poem can be very short and very information dense while a poorly written novel can take 80,000 words and still not convey the same information as that poem.
There is a lot more to "design" in web than some stupid visual trendiness ; its the entire reason we have two different phrases: UI & UX...
UX is how we experience the content, UI being how content is presented to us.
Good UI builds a good UX. Good UX builds understanding and relationship to the user's mind to the content.
but the key skill that the Human has is the speed between visual correlation to cognition of the library of thoughts available.
So obviously a person who does not have that connect, will fail to real-ize the scenario visualized.