I feel like this kind of websites that showcase "minimal" and "elegant" websites are just places where websites that want to be so trendy they all look kinda the same are being gathered. I'd bet more than half the websites shown here were made from a Framer template.

Take for example deadsimplesites.com, "The most minimal sites on the web, curated in one place" - most of them are nearly identical and, if you take a closer look, most of them are kinda the same framer template just filled with different data. And oh surprise, all of those "most minimal sites on the web" happen to be personal websites for product designers...