[Poppys]

| "Only the act of design can make the content less readable"

I disagree with this, HTML in it's raw rendered state is not pleasant to read. You have to apply some rules (or specify the rules in your browser) to get the text to a state where it is pleasant to read.

[antiframe]

Well, it's not going to get less readable if you do nothing, which I think was the point. You're getting at being able to make it more readable with design, which is possible, and addressed a few sentences later. But, the defaults aren't too bad: black text on white, blue or purple hyperlinks with underlines, larger headings, responsive, etc. The one thing I would always do is enforce a maximum line length for larger monitors.