The only thing that makes older-style websites harder to browse is the full-width text. My monitor is 24 inches wide, and while the text isn't super small, if my browser is taking up the full screen, I have to physically swivel my head side to side to read the text, and if this was multiple paragraphs, it would be pretty difficult to keep track of where I am. (Which is why most of the time, my browser is sized to be about half of the screen, anyway.)

(The blog portion actually does keep it to a nice width, though - it's only the landing page that has this problem.)

I have the opposite preference -- I prefer full-width text so I can have two pages up side by side on a 16:9 monitor, and usually 3 up on a wider format. I feel like I'm constantly grumbling about all the wasted white space on pages and their general total failure to be responsive to a half width screen that _isn't_ a mobile phone/tablet. Maybe we should just have an open standard for default display settings so we can both (all) have our cake?

> Which is why most of the time, my browser is sized to be about half of the screen, anyway.

Same here, and I find that preferable. Instead of the web page prescribing line length, have the user fully control it via their browser.

> My monitor is 24 inches wide

43" here.

Amusingly, Firefox' Split View helps here.