Find the technique, not the trend.

Four thousand ingots drawn in a single call, with the draw-call figure published next to the frame time so the cost of the scene is stated rather than implied.

Publish the millisecond budget next to the work — a receipt that makes optimisation a claim you can audit.

Level-of-detail that drops populations and post, not meaning — a degradation path you can defend on a phone.

Parallax depth without a renderer — stacked planes, scroll velocity, and grain that still reads when WebGL never arms.

Four translucent planes at different parallax depths producing depth with no canvas, no shader, and no main-thread cost.