you have to put in extra work just to make your website not work with privacy measures. like you have to put in the work to use some bloated javascript framework that doesn't work with noscript instead of just sticking with plain html and css, which would work. on top of that, i've encountered way too many big websites that don't even have a noscript tag so all you see is a ghost layout or a blank page.

i use macOS but don't use any software that isn't also available for linux (which Zed isn't)

i just don't like feeling locked in at all.

"shrinkflation" or smth

you can build it with a framework, but maybe build it on the server side instead. I've seen many nice sites that hardly use any javascript and instead of a bunch of api calls, the server just returns new html to render.