DILLO LOSES ITS STYLE

I've finally given in and turned off loading external CSS 
stylesheets in Dillo, my web browser of choice. More than half the 
time I seemed to end up doing this in order to read web pages 
properly, and the last hold out was with Wikipedia where the CSS 
there had some real advantage (although good old plain-HTML would 
have been better again).

But last month Wikipedia switched to a new theme and now it's just 
another website with screen-fulls of widely spaced navigation mess 
at the top of the page instead of real content, when viewed in 
Dillo, even with CSS turned on. At the same time now the stylesheet 
hides the contents section in Dillo.

The first problem can be solved by switching to the mobile version 
of Wikipedia at (for English Wikipedia) 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/, so I immediately changed the search 
settings to use that. But the mobile CSS also hides the contents 
section, so that still forces me to turn it off.

I used to get more grumpy about websites breaking support for less 
full-featured browsers, but now I'm quite resigned to it. Dillo 
also seems to have been completely abandoned now by its developer, 
and the website even seems to have been hijacked by someone else 
after the domain expired, so it can't even try to keep up anymore. 
Links is still developed, it got WEBP image support added last 
year, and AVIF image support last month, but it also gave up on CSS
completely years ago. Unfortunately the 'best effort' approach that
these lightweight web  browsers take just doesn't seem to be enough
anymore.

But I'm not giving up, I'll still stick with Dillo and just accept 
the ongoing descent of usability. Firefox often isn't very usable 
in many respects either, especially displaying to a remote window 
over 100MBit Ethernet on my 'Internet Client' computer. The cost in 
time to fork Dillo myself, something I have repeatedly considered, 
would be much greater than just the few extra moments messing 
around in broken page renderings on modern CSSy websites. Even just 
as an arbitrary programming hobby, it would mean a lot of time 
working on implementing ever-changing standards that I don't like 
in the first place, which is probably why nobody else wants to do 
it either.

I suppose I should mention Gopher now, where these troubles can 
almost seem far away (until you find a web link, at least). Yes I 
do use gopher://gopherpedia.com sometimes, but many topics are 
better with images, and for computer topics like software, it cuts 
out the table at the top of the page which I often consider to be 
the only really reliable information there (I have pretty limited 
trust in Wikipedia, but that's another topic). Gopher unfortunately 
doesn't replace the web of 2010, or even the Wikipedia of last 
year. Maybe I could write Gopherpedia-style proxies for all these 
websites (my web-dl idea, basically), but at heart that's the same 
sort of annoying endless job as working on a proper web browser.

In the end the people who make the web - computer hardware 
manufacturers up through to the people writing articles to feed 
into Wordpress - they don't think like me, they don't live like me, 
and they can't make very much money off people like me, so I should 
be happy for how much I'm able to get from their creations as it 
is. It's only really by accident on their part.

 - The Free Thinker

PS: Quite appropriately, I think, I'm now going to turn off this
    old mid 90s PC and try to fix a shortwave radio.