loads of the shitty "hates everything outside of their subculture and spends their time internet crusading" kid crowd flock to neocities because they're obsessed with old-web aesthetics despite being born in like 2008 or whatever
it'd be like if I tried stupid hard to be an 80s kid

but neocities the platform itself doesn't give that much of a fuck, like >>149904 points out
some of it is neglect, but IIRC shit like nekoweb exists just because they don't like neocities' hosting policy, and then it doubles down on the off of your site social networking features mentioned below

the idea that I have to hear about a 14 year old retard's opinion about an 18+ site has to be some kind of human rights violation, honestly

>>149886
neocities explicitly does have social networking features to follow site updates and blog about shit outside of just posting it on your site (pic related)
you can't entirely discount the feature like that

yeah, you ever don't need to touch it if you just want to put a page up, but it is there, and thus affects how people use the service