I just wish all the cool animated examples of D3 were updated to use the latest version of the library.

Mike had such cool and colorful ideas for the web 8 years ago which still wow supporters of any project. But I have had to spend significant time and money updating things to work with Vue or React while simultaneously trying to figure out what changed across versions of D3 while simultaneously trying to figure out what the inherited version of D3 was even doing.

Mike seems to have opted for more practical designs in the latter half of the decade in his exploration of data visualizations. While other contributors lack inspiration of using this as an art form.