> Realistic and elaborate UI elements weren’t a good fit for websites that thrived on simplicity, clean layout, and straightforward usability. Additionally, as

> Realistic and elaborate UI elements weren’t a good fit for websites that thrived on simplicity, clean layout, and straightforward usability. Additionally, as responsive web design grew in popularity and mobile performance became a concern, the visually rich and detailed graphics were being slowly phased out. This passage is laughable. Mobile performance is a "concern" only on the most abstract sense. In reality, mobile sites are filled to the brim with JS, trackers, and other bloat. I hardly think loading a few hundred KB of button graphics would make much of a difference.