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2026

Smooth scroll belongs to the engine, and the scroll clock is a shared loop — not a ScrollTrigger port
The GSAP snippet generator mirrors the Custom Code contract — it is not a full GSAP playground
A dozen uploads/unysonplus-* folders, or one uploads/unysonplus/ parent?
Where do the Animated Icons toggles live — a standalone extension Settings page, or Theme Settings → Icons?
Why cross-column drag-and-drop was a small opt-in, not a new post type
"Overlay on last section" as a Footer Layout toggle — positioning only, JS-gated
Animated (Lottie) icons: ship JSON only — .lottie is a delivery optimization, not a render one
Per-batch scatter with synced text: one Stage of scenes, not five separate galleries
Animated hand-drawn accents: two-state APNG (in → idle) with a cache-bust restart, not SVG
Is the Animated Heading shortcode redundant now that the Animation Engine has text effects?
The cinematic "camera pan" is a moving backdrop, not a camera — so we made it a Stage option
Replicating a cinematic site: live, user-replaceable elements over baked-in fidelity
How far should the Animation Engine expose GSAP — and how do we teach it?
Securing author-written JS: gate execution, not the UI
One data repo for all content libraries; presets get a browse option, not a rewrite
How does a GSAP timeline become builder options a non-coder can drive?
Should Page Builder pages show the theme's page title?
3D Gallery Motion: a nested multi-picker (via a NEW key) plus CSS-sticky scroll pinning
Why gallery card links live ON the image (attachment meta), and post-driven galleries came free
Where does a new gallery design belong — the core Gallery or the 3D Gallery?
Why portfolio display settings live in Theme Settings, bridged by one filter
Why [portfolio] grew into a rich element instead of deferring to [posts]
Why cinematic scroll pages became a Scrollytelling layout, not a new module
Whether to invest in agentic-browsing readiness — and whether to build WebMCP now
Why image treatments became a Theme Settings preset, not more Card Styles
Why extra footer bars are a filter, not per-container option files
Why footer columns got an 'Auto Width' mode outside the 12-grid
Why the page-title H1 is theme-rendered with a toggle, not a per-page shortcode
Who edits the Site Converter — and how kit users feed it back
Why Theme Settings docs are one file per tab — with every choice listed
Why the default heading scale shrank — and why line-height was the real fix
Why option-type docs are one index + a dozen deep-dives, not 52 stubs
Why 'disable text selection' is an opt-in General → Base toggle, not a new Settings tab
Why the Mega Menu column width is an inline image-picker, not the Column shortcode's responsive popover
Why popover pickers deselect on click-again instead of needing a 'None' tile
Why we're adopting React incrementally, not rewriting UnysonPlus
Why footer section dividers are now opt-in, not a default border
Why the live editor re-renders from the model to nest a column instead of moving the DOM
Why nested columns render through fw_inner_row / fw_inner_column alias shortcodes
Why nested columns are columns-in-columns (one level), not an Inner Row element
Why the off-canvas panel takes elements, not a menu-or-snippet toggle
Why option-gating pickers use a new option id instead of migrating the old scalar
Why Posts gaps consume the shared Gap Scale presets
Why Posts loads card CSS per-design, auto-detected by filename
Why the Posts read-more reuses button presets instead of duplicating the Button shortcode
Preset colors: why we keep the reference picker instead of a frozen hex
Why a shortcode's designs are a registry, not hardcoded templates
Why the testimonial quote allows safe inline HTML, not a rich editor
Why testimonial ratings render as inline SVG, not Font Awesome
Why the color picker moved to Coloris, and why opacity is opt-in
Why typography-v2 became just typography (and an alias)

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