If you stick to the basics of static html content + styling it's actually a lot easier because there are far fewer browser 'quirks' to work around nowadays (you rarely need browser specific code), and things like flexbox are a lot more intuitive than hacking around with floats.

I'm a front-end dev (amonst other things), so I'm pretty comfortable with React, Angular, etc. And therr are definitely cases where they make sense. But simple static or server side rendered sites are much simpler now.