I can’t help you but I just came here to say that I also very much dislike the trend that everything has to look flat. Imho visual, simulated depth (through shadows, gradients, etc.) can make UIs look actually much cleaner, because hierarchy, grouping of elements and differentiation between buttons/text inputs and non-interactive elements is often much more obvious on first sight.

Seriously though, why? Is there historic reasons for that? Did they have to pay extra for more letters back in the day?

JS is horse shit. Instead of trying to improve it or using that high level scripting language as a compilation target (wtf?!), we should deprecate it entirely and put all efforts into web assembly.

Um actually… Opera and Edge weren’t always based on chromium!

Simple fix: Install firefox and never use a chromium based browser again. :-P