Funny story, I have a comment chain here from a few years ago with someone who didn’t realize it wasn’t actually a framework. Total woosh. Lumped it in with the other frameworks and dismissed them all in the same sentence.

Well, it's totally likely. But there is VanJS, which calls itself a vanilla JS framework, which adds to the confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36067983

What value would HTTPS possibly add to the website in question?

It makes it harder for ISPs to inject ads: https://superuser.com/questions/1087669/blocking-the-isps-ad...