Holy crap. I didn't know I had this in me. I just coded the most aesthetically pleasing new tab page I've ever seen. The search bar even works and searches #DuckDuckGo.
All that's left is hosting it locally so I get blazing speeds.
@bugaevc@amolith It'd be difficult to replicate whilst tailoring to the individual. But it does show that custom pages can be much nicer than anything I can generate automatically.