This very site has no build step. No bundler, no node_modules the size of a moon, no "just run the dev server and wait." It's hand-written HTML, one CDN stylesheet, and a single file of my own CSS on top.

The stylesheet is snes.css — a pixel-art component kit that makes a page look like a 16-bit menu screen. I pull it straight from a CDN:

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/snes.min.css">

Frameworks are great when you have an app. For a blog, every layer of tooling is a layer that can break between you and "ship the words." A folder of .html files will still open in fifteen years. That's the bet I'm making.