Websites should be easy
I started creating websites when we didn't have scaffoldings nor generators and the sites were created a file at the time. We used templates and boilerplates but mostly our own templates and boilerplates inspired from other websites online. Then we started to have options to avoid duplication of code and we could launch websites easier.
But when we started creating websites with some tools that keep been updated and sometimes broke then we stop doing websites and we start doing something completely different.