>>418632350
VRChat is partially to blame for that one.
>miniature fully animated dancing stages
Avatar hider and performance ranks have strongly disincentivized this.
>tesseracts
Still exist, ask any of the local shader autists
>state machines before they were even supported
And now they're supported and heavily used, so what? a lot of the old methods involve now-patched exploits
>shaders that turned the avatar 2D
Still exist and still used