[wildrhythms]

When product managers come to me and demand I make the <select> look a certain way to fit in with the rest of the "design language", I end up having to re-write all of the base and edge cases and accessibility and theming of what's already a perfectly functioning UI component. That code gets shipped to every user. And that's just one component... tomorrow I will make the <input type="checkbox"> look a certain way. Probably hundreds of KB just building these base UI components to fit in with some "design goal" that will change again in 6 months. If it makes the app unusable for some (unmeasured) percentage of our users on featurephones in developing countries, they don't care, because the product managers making these decisions will be gone in 6 months too, replaced with another with the same attitudes. At least the app "looks nice"!