Let me guess, you want a site that is just a singular column of text, plenty of space for ad breaks, and 3/4 of your monitor is just whitespace on the left and right?
No image blocks any paragraph, which even if it had, would be far more forgivable than modern web design. Do you consider any of Apple's modern product pages -- which "block off whole portions of" the page itself by scrolljacking and Clockwork-Oranging you to force you to watch their hypnotic marketing animations -- bad?
Accusing me of “webdev butthurt” is pretty funny. considering that:
A. I’m not a web dev.
B. I have already said multiple times I agree with the actual message of the article! (I just couldn’t read parts of it on desktop)