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ALT It's often desirable to scale your font size to be proportional to the screen size. For desktop, you might have large headings that work well with more horizontal real estate. But you look at the same design on a vertical mobile screen, and suddenly your 1-line header becomes a 3-line header. Depending on the design, this could make the mobile design feel broken.

ALT This video by Kevlin Henney nicely articulates why lego naming hurts readability by hiding meaningful identifiers. If the meaningful identifiers are easier to find because your code is not filled with noise, it is much more pleasant to read. More importantly, it's easier to figure out what is going on when you revisit a chunk of code you wrote months ago.