> essentially just providing a clock

"providing a clock" is not something to dismiss though. Arithmetic plus looping will give you a Turing machine, so you do need both or you're just showing the ability to do arithmetic.

And a proper Turing machine doesn't need an extra line of template html for each iteration. It's much easier to forgive finite memory, since a small amount of memory can go for billions of years while an iteration limit runs out fast.

This one passes all the bars, but I do think the bars were overall legitimate.

> many still claim that even as much as hovering your mouse on a specific part of the screen makes css not a programming language.

That bar is pretty silly.