"For legends attract the very best in our times, just as ideologies attract the average, and the whispered tales of gruesome secret powers behind the scenes attract the very worst." (Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism)
Perhaps it's time we had real brutalist UX - websites that minimize the React cruft, and expose the material of the Web as much as possible, so that there is no room for bad work to hide.
Done properly, this would be a flex just as much as brutalist architecture was a flex for the architects.