> …Yes. Ever seen an image file with circular dimensions?
The browser isn't displaying a file, it is displaying data mapped to a rectangle. It is 2023 you should be able to spend some polygons on those shapes.
While I wouldn't be surprised if browsers still haven't managed to actually replace flash there have to be dozens of ways to rotate a circle without rotating the rectangle it is contained in. In the case of svg you can, as far as I can find, change the rotation of any shape directly using javascript.