After much pondering, here's my problem with the concept of "Light mode / Dark mode" on a frikken website.
I get that the cool kids all want l33t haX0r gothputers, and those with less-than-stellar eyesight prefer something they can read and these are two valid viewpoints and I value their contribution, there are no wrong answers.
But like... all it really offers is a limited Customization feature, right? Only, your choices are "Functional" and "This one uncustomizable customization". Weird!
Why not let people customize their own preferred view? Why not offer more themes? Why not let people write their own stylesheets if they really want to customize?
It just seems like so much unnecessary work to get Dark Mode working properly and looking amazing and also being usable, for so little return, ya know?
Windows 3.1 offered a whole heap of themes and colour sets, most of them trash (the after-image of Hot Dog is *still* burned into my retina, like an old CRT monitor), and at 7 floppy discs it was smaller than half the websites I have open right now, I mean if you're gonna do it, do it all the way right?
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