I do a fair amount of thinking around all failure states (CSS included). I think you may be overthinking the appearance aspect of a failure state. The applicat

I do a fair amount of thinking around all failure states (CSS included). I think you may be overthinking the appearance aspect of a failure state. The application doesn't need to look the same when CSS fails to load. However, the application should be functional. This thinking carries over to the backend as well. My application server doesn't require all services to be up and running. Instead, it's able to query and tell what is working and what isn't. That information is then bubbled down to the UI in one way or another. That may mean certain functionality is unavailable (ex, if solr isn't reachable then search is disabled).