Can't help but feel this is one of the subtle traps hidden beneath the advice that contexts aren't supposed to be stored. I know it's not always that easy, of course.

If the argument is to try to prohibit it, then it just won't work as a platform, because too much existing software won't work on it. There's a lot of garbage I'd love to not have (all the stupid hardware config apps all the manufacturers push on you) but just having that functionality not work can't be the answer.

Out of interest, do you not often find this a problem these days? I feel like there'd be a lot of sites out there that are non-functional or literally do nothing without JS.

Has probably been forgotten by Australia and everywhere else though.

- Lots of text seems slightly offset. It's not all centered within buttons etc.

- The text also doesn't seem to quite line up with the icon on said buttons (it feels relatively a little too high)

- Similarly the text within the little notification popups ("New") isn't centered and hits the top of the outline

- The colours have poor contrast. I don't have any vision impairment but the peach colour doesn't feel distinct enough from the purple/lavender to me. (It's better in light mode when the peach turns to a stronger red).

- On that note, maybe yellow was not the best background for the beer badge when most of the glass is yellow with a bit of white.

I don't know if there's something that makes this render any differently for me than anyone else. I'm using Chrome though so I wouldn't have thought it'd be especially unusual.

The only real difference there (although it is a significant one) is that most of those internal Google tools tended to be very good, often ahead of the external state-of-the-art. That's a very different feeling to a baroque old stack inside a bank somewhere. Maybe the external world has caught up on a bunch of them more recently though which would start to change that.

I've rolled with the "we'll keep a local patch against upstream" for small changes before, which helps keep on track with upgrades, but depends how feasible that is.

The Lovecraftian vibe could have been cool but it doesn't really come through in the game in the way the satanic / hell thing did in Doom.

Honestly I think Doom is where it came together the best, Quake was technically better (of course) but it was not a better game.