[spiffyk]

These effects are all pretty, but like... there should be some sort of media query for devices that are not that powerful (or their owners simply do not wish to burn through their batteries just to read a website). It gets pretty annoying that my phone slows down to a crawl when someone has these effects on their website. At the same time, simply opting out of the blurring and leaving everything else as-is is not a solution, since that may quickly render a lot of things unreadable.

[cons0le]

Absolutely. None of these look good to me. I would rather just have plain text. I wish all of these fancy sites would at least include a plain text / simplified reader mode by default. Front end stuff is getting way too over engineered .