during my time as a freelance designer/dev I had a particularly demanding client. I came up with several layouts and iterated for weeks on a single page with li

during my time as a freelance designer/dev I had a particularly demanding client. I came up with several layouts and iterated for weeks on a single page with little progress. One day in frustration I filled the entire page with a tinyMCE textbox and said, "here, now you can make it exactly how you like it" - and he did, and it was terrible, but he was happy. The large majority of people have terrible taste in design. I think design constraints on platforms like medium just serve to prevent people from actively ruining their content with bad design.