@anarodrigues I feel this strongly. I haven't shipped a new site design in many years, despite having worked on it. But I can assure you, I code that shit with *liberal* comments, properly indented and structured. Because _I simply don't believe the modern "best practices" are worth the costs for 90% of websites_.
Power to you. Be an artisan instead of a factory worker.
@mattwilcox hell yeah. I can't think of a case where it is worth it on personal websites at least :)
@anarodrigues 100%, and I'm dubious on a lot of larger types of site too.
All this effort to generate "small efficient code" - but then it all gets gzipped over the wire, there's _gigantic_ bloat of utility classes all over the shop easily doubling the size of the HTML, and a few Mb of JS analytics and a multi-mb PNG logo or dozens of poorly compressed and loaded photos.
Build tools don't fix most "efficiency" problems.
The lies code people sell to themselves is fascinating to see.
@mattwilcox "larger type" website owners don't want to pay back-end developers or front-end developers. They want a "full-stack" to do the back-end in JS and all the front-end tricks, "growth-hacking" (🤮 ) while asking them to copy what someone else is doing.