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A CSS height animation was causing 60% CPU and 25% GPU usage in an Electron app. The issue stems from height being a layout property that triggers expensive layout recalculation, painting, and compositing on every frame. The solution involves replacing height animations with transform-based animations using translate and multiple elements to create the same visual effect, reducing CPU usage from 15% to 6% and GPU usage to less than 1%.

Don't animate height!

This title MISLEADING.
The answer is: it depends.
There are ways which height change does NOT trigger re-calc, and also this applies to user-base with weak computer power.
These non-sense blog posts with definitive titles such as these are becoming common and can wrongly affect developers who don’t know much in the subject

yeah either CSS sucks or the guys behind the animation have skill issues. Which one are we picking today?