Thank you Scotty for reading and sharing your view. I can see where you’re coming from and you’re not wrong. I am very familiar with all of those scenarios and some even more complex. One of my prides is actually setting up an entire micro-frontend architecture to allow a learning platform (used by 50+ million users) to evolve better from an engineering perspective while keeping users happy too. The complexities that bother me and the ones I argue against are the ones created because of unnecessary future-proofing for instance for a feature that might never happen, or creating incredibly complicated testing pyramids that result in more complex tests (syntax-wise) than the feature itself.

But let me ask you this. Did the users really ask for all the animations (which are actually a bad accessibility practice) and half the things we want to do with the web or was it companies, developers and designers? I had an interesting face-2-face conversation before the pandemic with one of the main lads from the W3C and it’s very interesting seeing behind all the web standards and why they were created and new ones keep being created. It’s largely driven by deep-pocketed companies who pay a hefty yearly membership which makes me think…

Anyway, I am going off tangent. But thank you again for reading and sharing your perspective. I wish more people did. Dialogue works better than silence. Happy New Year!