Ah yes, "typographic creativity" - going to Google Fonts dot com and choosing Roboto.

Yeah I mean public CDNs are of course bad but reducing the idea of type on the web to its lowest form is a strawman

while i agree with you that webfonts are suboptimal, i dont see how this is a strawman

Quite some time ago, I gave up on letting sites set their own fonts. Why allow it? The ones on my system are perfectly usable and familiar -- some sites may pick slightly better ones, others will go for some annoying whimsical bullshit.

Going back and forth on allowing sites to set text/background colors.

Good content doesn't need graphic design tricks to remain interesting.

> typographic creativity

More like self-indulgent wankery.

Ah yes, aesthetics, visual style is entirely wankery, gotcha. We should all stick to verdana or something.

Choosing misguided form at the expense of function most definitely is wankery.

You may not care for branding in webpages, but many people do appreciate it.

No they don't. Trust me. Nobody does outside the brander.

who cares if all the body panels are misaligned, everyone else has a tesla, then dangit i want a tesla