So much this! The use of localstorage here was absolutely fine - it puts the gameplay at the front and center. This article is like an advertisement for usele

So much this! The use of localstorage here was absolutely fine - it puts the gameplay at the front and center. This article is like an advertisement for useless cruft designed around monetizing a product, filled with things users fucking HATE, like forced signups and email spam. I would have literally NEVER played it if it had required a signup, and it would had the dev taken the advice in this article. My take away: This author is concerned primarily with his problems as a developer, and has not in any real way considered what users want, and why this product was successful. Further - he's using wordle as SEO to drive attention to his own pages. I find it off-putting at best, intentionally manipulative and insulting at worst.