My frontender intuition says something else is wrong and forcing the use of the SVG version might cause trouble in other browsers. Last I checked Chrome on Wind

My frontender intuition says something else is wrong and forcing the use of the SVG version might cause trouble in other browsers. Last I checked Chrome on Windows uses Skia, a different graphics library than Safari, which is usually the culprit behind its rendering issues. It may be that Skia renders SVG nicely, but other rendering engines may have issues with SVG in small sizes. And how about Chrome on OSX or Linux? This may need a little more research to figure out what's going on.