Which part of this is no-nonsense anyway?
Have you seen the current state of front-end web development? Back in the old days you can just spend a few days looking up JavaScript, and then you can impress your friends. These days beginner web devs will only be able to walk two steps before stumbling at the word npm and then just fall into months of learning it without making a single web page.
This guide is "no-nonsense" in that "I'm just going to teach you the basic, the simplest possible". Afterwards, you can make a simple website that'll look pretty nice. Hopefully, when you want dive deeper, that knowledge can help you find your way.
It's also "no-nonsense" in that "I'm not going to hold your hand too much". I don't like it when a tutorial goes too deep into a thing, or take too long getting basic concepts down with too many examples. I try my best to keep this guide understandable, but I also won't be surprised it its readers will also Alt+Tab to Google and Stack Overflow-em-up. I think that's just part of the learning process, and that's fine. Us self-taught people gotta self-taught, y'know?