The content security policy for the StorageController is too strict to serve HTML sites.
Adding this:
use OCP\AppFramework\Http\EmptyContentSecurityPolicy;
To the top of the file, and adding a content security policy in the 'respond' function:
$policy = new EmptyContentSecurityPolicy();
$policy->addAllowedStyleDomain("*");
$policy->addAllowedStyleDomain("data:");
$policy->addAllowedScriptDomain("*");
$policy->addAllowedImageDomain("*");
$policy->addAllowedFontDomain("*");
$policy->addAllowedConnectDomain("*");
$policy->allowInlineStyle(true);
$policy->allowInlineScript(true);
$policy->allowEvalScript(true);
$result->setContentSecurityPolicy($policy);
will allow simply-present to work on solid-nextcloud.