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These are all good ideas.

I'm careful with my login. I used my Google account with two-factor authentication to log in on booking. I never signed through one of their web pages. I also only use HTTPS.

It is a small independent hotel, not a chain so it seems a lot of work just for a review.

I have to agree with you. I see this as a tendency for sites to start getting back to basics. Large frontend frameworks often cause more problems than they solve.

I like this quote from 'The art of Unix Programming' published in 2003

"While it still makes sense to write system programs and time-critical kernels of applications in C or C++, the world has changed a great deal since these languages came to prominence in the 1980s. In 2003, processors are a thousand times faster, memories are a thousand times larger, and disks are a factor of ten thousand larger, for roughly constant dollars.

These plunging costs change the economics of programming in a fundamental way. Under most circumstances it no longer makes sense to try to be as sparing of machine resources as C permits. Instead, the economically optimal choice is to minimize debugging time and maximize the long-term maintainability of the code by human beings. Most sorts of implementation (including application prototyping) are therefore better served by the newer generation of interpreted and scripting languages. This transition exactly parallels the conditions that, last time around the wheel, led to the rise of C/C++ and the eclipse of assembler programming."

I never liked 'Getting Things Done'. It's the most repetitive book I've ever read. It could be a 5-page article, but David Allen decided to write a ~300 pages book by repeating the same idea over and over.