:) i let a younger person on the core team create the new website for something different

it is using astro, we are scaling down the use of tailwind (I wanted to give it a try, but didn't really click with it.)

I don't mind someone doing something kind of fun with the website and trying something new out, I know some people don't like it but some people do. All good.

that’s fair! It definitely looks good and modern!! I just wonder if it compromises the initial impressions of the project in some way.

isnt it obvious that some web sites will become unreadable without serious machine assistance, while classical HTML web standards have some fallback path to read by a human ?

clear text with minimal markup has many desirable properties IMHO