Oh I agree, I lost a lot of nuance with my trite 1-sentence summary. Shiny is mostly good judgement, good taste, careful organization and a lot of sweat resulti

Oh I agree, I lost a lot of nuance with my trite 1-sentence summary. Shiny is mostly good judgement, good taste, careful organization and a lot of sweat resulting in well-crafted CSS. Especially in the past few years, as browsers have implemented a lot of animations and scaling in CSS which offloads to the GPU. You don’t want JavaScript/CPU doing that math anymore. Component-based JavaScript frameworks “force” us to organize our CSS in the same way outlawing cars in favor of bikes bikes ensures everyone follows the speed limit.