Burgers are bad for you mmkay?

Specifically, the over-production and enforced consumption of burger menus on mobile and responsive sites.
Some sites even use them on desktop!

This is news to you?
LMGTFY:
Google: UI UX Burger Menus Are Bad

Who am I to talk of UX/UI? Have you seen my site? It’s HIDEOUS!

Yeah, I’ll deal with that some other time. This is just a scratchpad really, no one reads it anyway.

Back to the topic at hand – it has been posited that providing access to a top tier of priority links is a major improvement on the burger menu, even if you have to resort to the cheap cuts for deeper navigation.

Here’s a nice implementation of that:
http://lucidlemon.github.io/paradeiser/