It looks nice and works well.

Unrelated, but I think we all need to migrate to a new word instead of "minimal" for such things. Perhaps just "simple." I get what we all mean as applied to this project, but it isn't what minimal typically means in English. A minimal new tab experience would be a blank tab.

I agree! "Minimalistic" would probably have been a better choice for this project.

next on the list are the js frameworks called "vanilla"