It still can be. Do it. Go make your website in M$ Frontpage, for all I care

Just did that for a test frontend for a module I needed to build (not my primary job so don't know anything about UI but running in browsers was a requirement), so basic HTML with the bare minimum of JS and all DOM. Colleagues were very surprized. And yes, vim is still the goto editor and will be for a long time now all "IDE" are pushing "AI" slop everywhere.

ahh yes, fresh off reading "Html For Dummies" I made my first tripod.com site