&gt;I think the issue is - who gets to decide how wide the content is. Is it the user or the website? Or to put it another way, does the act of maximizing a window represent an intent or does it represent a default error state that needs to be worked around by laying out the content in a different way.<p>This is why CSS exists - it separates style from content - if you want what that site has just disable all CSS and you&#x27;ll get raw content.<p>&gt;What are those non-subjective reasons?<p>There are things like optimal line length based on eye travel distance and a bunch of &quot;defaults&quot; that have been found trough centuries of experience in design&#x2F;print. I don&#x27;t do design professionally so I don&#x27;t remember the exact rules but I did take design classes back in high school so I know they exist - I&#x27;ll let someone who&#x27;s an expert fill in on what they are :D