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I like my ebooks to be somewhat like the simpler styled paper novels. Not like they are in MS Notepad or a facsimile of typescript.
You don't need a LOT of CSS, but certainly you need as a minimum:
Heading styles. Main ones that are in TOC centred and desired top and bottom margin.
Scene break style, centred and desired top and bottom margin.
main paragraph style with an indent but no spacing. Vertical spaced paragraphs somehow are worse on a smaller page.
A first paragraph style with no indent after any object that's centred.
Optionally a style for included quoted material, like a letter, note, sign etc in the story.
Optionally a Preamble title style (it's usually NOT a header level but looks like one) and also Preamble body text style.
There are other book elements that may exist and need styled.
The good news is that if you use styles in a compatible way in the wordprocessor, then the CSS needed is automatically generated by programs like Calibre.
If you use a wordprocessor as a glass typewriter, or only use a text editor, then indeed no CSS may look similar!
I do sometimes write early draft chapters in a text editor with no styles.
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