I hand designed my site https://www.nair.sh/ and it feels like it doesn't even compare.
Sure, there's some judgment as to what design is appropriate in a given situation, but it just feels like so much harder for a human's design to feel valuable now.
But you're wrong in implying (if you are) that it's not valuable to be impressive to a non-expert.
To the non-expert, probably acceptable, even impressive.
I'm talking about competition; being valuable within a market; being seen as useful by others.
Maybe my focus on competition wasn't well communicated but you're making a precise but irrelevant point about personal integrity.
Your site is actually really nice except the red color burns into my retina, so that's the only thing I would change about it (change your --primary to something more like #7c2c3e)
It’s just the same sterile template used for everything, yeah it looks good first time you See it. But the 100th? It starts to look like noise
There's so much joy to be found in regular human creating and sharing.
The creating part still remains because it's intrinsic but the sharing part feels discouraging now.
Regular, non-groundbreaking creative work seems ... less worthy of sharing?
Why? Is a chair that you made with your own hands not as valuable to you because somebody else got one from Ikea? Would you not show it to your friends for this reason?
If people could generate an infinite variety of chairs in a few seconds, than yes, my sharing would be discouraged.
Your point is thin.
I love writing but even there I have to work doubly hard to make sure I'm doing something valuable.
My point is that the space within which human creators can distinguish themselves is diminishing rapidly.