The HN hivemind decries the lack of humanity and personality of the internet of nowadays but at the same time wants every website to be 100% text, no JS, no CSS because allegedly nobody needs CSS and, if you dare to do something remotely "fancy" with the layout, you have to build it with <table>s.

This is not about "lack of humanity", but about violating fundamental UX rules such as hiding your cursor at random times. It's offensive.

You don't have to sacrifice usability while expressing personality.

I barely noticed it. The complaints I've read about it are making a mountain out of a molehill.

I didn't read the article because all the moving bits were too distracting. Something also turned my cursor invisible, which is rude.

Not sure anyone lost anything here, or anyone cares.

I generally think stuff like that make the web much more interesting.

In this case it was distracting though.