- Replaced Alpine.js and Turbolinks with lightweight vanilla JS event listeners
- Swapped HTMX CDN import for a custom 15-line native JS polyfill
- Removed Google Fonts ('Inter') in favor of the native system font stack
- Extracted repeated SVGs in list views into a `<defs>` block to shrink HTML
- Reduced dashboard pagination PAGE_SIZE from 50 to 25
- Minified Tailwind CSS output and enabled Gzip/Brotli via Flask-Compress
