I'm all for reducing the number of page elements. It gets ridiculous at times. I just spent an hour modifying CSS for a text area on a popup form used by a 3rd party module. Rather than a simple border around the textarea, there's a half dozen separate classes, small images, and 20 or 30 lines of CSS scattered all over the place. What could you guys possibly have been thinking when you created a textarea border using little images in each corner?

Did you guys use some sort of automated process see more that created all these page elements? I find it hard to believe that any human would do this deliberately.