Why Pure HTML/CSS Templates Still Rule in 2026

The Boiling Frog of Frontend Complexity If you've bought a "SaaS Boilerplate" or "UI Kit" recently, you know the exact script. You clone the repository, enthusiastically run npm install\, and watch as 1.4 gigabytes of dependencies flow into your node_modules\. Thirty seconds later, you boot up the dev server and are immediately greeted by 47 terminal warnings regarding peer dependency conflicts, a deprecated hook, and a mysterious hydration boundary mismatch. You spend the next three days fighti