I enjoy looking at these trends every year, but what a painfully designed website. Does this really need to be an overkill javascript "Web application" for what

I enjoy looking at these trends every year, but what a painfully designed website. Does this really need to be an overkill javascript "Web application" for what can easily be rendered as a few static pages of lists and facts? And sheesh, look at that huge amount of space wasted by those persistent top and bottom grey and blue bars. My 1280x800 laptop screen is already constrained enough on the Y axis as it is. The site sure does look modern though. </old man web3.0 rant>