Did not downvote. Let's take twitter as a well known and particularly bad example.

For a brutalist example, let's take HN. It works. Plus, I'm sure the code is quite simple.

From skimming the thumbnails in the linked site, I don't know that I'd call HN or reddit brutalist designs, maybe "classic" or "skeletal".

The emphasis is on dense content with simple links, and there's not a lot of "live" interactive content on the page. I don't find either site to be particularly ugly or visually offensive, contrary to many of the linked "brutalist" sites.

I'd love to see more sites in the HN/reddit model (here's hoping reddit's coming desktop redesign doesn't lose that), but I wouldn't want to actually use more brutalist sites (outside of individual creative expression, anyway).

I didn't coin the term and I don't like it -- but hacker news is actually listed on the linked site.