Can't we just... build things anymore

took a week off tech twitter and my brain feels like it works again. came back and everyone's still doing the same thing. obsessing over lighthouse scores and core web vitals and conversion drop-off at step 3. someone in a discord i'm in spent four days optimizing a page that gets 200 visits a month. four days. i don't know when building something became secondary to measuring it. the best thing i shipped this year was because a friend had an annoying problem and i fixed it over a weekend. no me