Use case or problem
I love having the apps and tools I use daily in my life to look nice and clean and customized in a way that I personally like it, in a strange way it motivates me to be more productive. I understand that most people probably value function over form when it comes to the likes of productivity and PKM, but personally form is just as important for me. As an artist and designer, I value it a lot and translucency was one of those icings on the cake that made obsidian all the more worth seeping my teeth and time into.
Proposed solution
Just add it back the way it was before, sure it had its performance issues, but literally none of them bothered me. The only issue I ever ran into with translucency was the laggy window drag that most people are probably fond of, but this wasn’t an issue because most of the time I wouldn’t be dragging the app window all over the place and even when I did to put it on another monitor for example, it wasn’t a major bug that broke anything or got in the way of anything, it was just a slight lag that I was completely fine with dealing with.
Current workaround (optional)
I’m currently using the WindowTop app to make obsidian transparent, but it isn’t as good as the translucency obsidian once had, not only in terms of form but also in function, since it makes words, images, and iframes transparent too whereas obsidian’s translucency didn’t. Really annoying to deal with when I’m trying to take notes from an embedded youtube video in obsidian.