If I could have a tool to 1) remove all styling from a site, 2) reduce it to fundamental semantic markup (and here the HTML5 standard actually does provide a solid framework), and 3) apply my own preferred settings (fonts, margins, font-size, foreground/background colors) to every damned page, with minimal styling allowed, I'd be far happier.

You might like to read the web in Emacs.

For just reading long articles, it's great.

If you want to read Twitter or Tumblr or whatever, it's got modes for those too, in a nice experience.