RTL Is Not Just dir="rtl": What I Learned Shipping Vue Templates for the Arab Web

I spent the last several months building Vue 3 templates with native RTL support. Along the way I learned that "RTL support" is one of the most overpromised, underdelivered claims in the frontend ecosystem. Most templates that advertise Arabic or RTL support do roughly this: [ dir = "rtl" ] { direction : rtl ; } Ship it. Tweet it. Add a flag emoji to the README. Then a real Arabic-speaking user opens the page and within 5 seconds notices the gradient flowing the wrong way, the chevron icon point