There is a movement supporting small websites. The links below may inspire those interested in text or small websites.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231208000921/https://10kbclub....
I find that the sites designed around being small are usually nice to read since the effort is put in the content not the layout.
Additionally a lot of great sites can be found through something like https://wiby.me/ or different protocols like gopher or gemini.
You forgot to mention https://smolweb.org/