Delaying style.min.css - Is this ok?

Wow - that is some improvement! And thank you for the kind words - very humbled.

Note on Time to Interactive - deferring any scripts that register EventHandlers will lengthen the TTI. Its one of those fine balancing acts - if you don' defer those scripts then you increase the initial loading times. As its below 3.8s the Google is happy.

LCP - somethings are just plain weird. Padding a container with a Gradient Background will increase the browser compute time to render the gradient... but i wouldn't have thought that would be an issue on todays tech... so i agree the algos are doing some weird things.

And yes, the next update will definitely give you greater scope to creating your own single post / archive layouts.

And Happy Chinese New Year to you!

You are so kind David. One last question if I may. When I use Flying Press to defer Google tags, Time to Interactive goes way down. Unfortunately, there is a problem with using Flying Press and iOS devices. It requires a double click to make links work. WP Rocket users have reported the same thing when they delay scripts. The problem only arise in iOS.

Do you know of another way to deal with these darn Google Tags to bring TTI down? Everything is pretty much green now, except for TTI. Thank goodness it is not a CWV marker. As of right now, I have passed all CWV without Flying Press. Won't use it if it kills iOS usability.

I believe that Flying Scripts delays scripts until there is a user interaction - which can cause the Double Tap issue - on their support forum i notice they state a Timeout event which can be set to execute the scripts without the need for user interaction.

Thanks again David. I looked into the Timeout issue and also discovered that Flying scripts was breaking all of our reCaptcha. Going to ditch it for now. Thank you!

You're welcome