HTTP is better because: it lasts forever without mantainence, it's easier to learn set up with no third parties required, all software can access a HTTP website, it's low resource requirements, and HTTP+HTTPS is perfectly fine.
Whereas CA TLS only lasts a year or two without mantainence, is so complex to set up and keep running that a literal ecosystem of programs (acme, acme2, etc) exist to hide that complexity, only software within the last ~few years can access CA TLS websites because of TLS version sunsetting and root cert expirations and the like, and everyone centralizing in the same CA makes it extremely easy to apply political/social pressures for censorship in a CA TLS only browser world. Additionally requiring third party participating to set up a website makes it harder for people to learn how to run their own and it requires more compute resources.
CA TLS only feels like it should be "required" when the person can't imagine a web browser that doesn't automatically run all untrusted code sent to it. When the only types of websites the person can image are commercial or institutional rather than personal and the person believes all the web should cargo cult the requirements of commerce. Personal websites involving no monetary or private information transactions don't actually need to worry about targeted MITM and there's no such thing as open wireless access points anymore.
