I don’t think that’s fair, exactly. The point of this exercise is to show artistic expression by pushing a medium outside of its intended use. There’s also an a

I don’t think that’s fair, exactly. The point of this exercise is to show artistic expression by pushing a medium outside of its intended use. There’s also an artist that paints in MS Excel, for example. SVG is an incredible and underrated format. You can create illustrations in svg with modern graphics tools, yet still hack and animate them with css and js. And CSS Houdini is a really exciting development, too. Some things about the web platform are frustrating for sure, but this sort of project isn’t any kind of statement on the effort required to build modern web graphics and illustrations because you’d never approach it this way. It’s just a fun puzzle for the artist, and every tech and medium has examples of this sort of thing.