For some websites, I'm logged in so often I almost never see the "why you should sign up" blurb.
GitHub is one of these: the UI is very familiar, but the logged-out homepage feels completely new whenever I see it. It's darker than the logged-in UI.
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The "line of death", where the browser UI splits between trusted UI elements and UI controlled by the website.
Also argues that HTTP warnings are better than HTTPS padlocks, because there's incentive to spoof padlocks lower on the page.
https://emilymstark.com/2022/12/18/death-to-the-line-of-death.html
It feels like a mature software project is one where bugs require multiple commits to fix.
You've hammered out the basic issues, so the remaining issues are often weird interactions between components.
You can often estimate the age of a website based on how well it displays on mobile.
All my sites end up with media queries in the CSS for narrow screens. It's so hard to design a single UI that scales from phone to desktop otherwise.