The frontier of web design is apparently digital Rube Goldberg machines, existing probably more for job security rather than consideration for the end-user.
that might well be, but just recently i got a crash report and it turned out the user had some "unsupported" version of Safari... and i'd rather transpile/polyfill than be that site that asks you to upgrade your browser to use it
(funnily enough, it actually parsed ES6 stuff fine, but was missing the `Object.fromEntries` method)
On the contrary, it does seem like jumping through these kinds of hoops has become strictly necessary if you are building web apps you would like to be responsive.
Are you sure? Media queries handle layout changes font size has been proportional to user agent since the beginning the web. A little SCSS preprocessing makes writing complicated CSS a lot easier.
