Each sync created a new artwork cache and re-fetched every sprite with no-cors. Opaque responses are padded to several MB each for storage quota, so a Living Dex grew to tens of GB, syncs never finished, and the offline copy could fail to save.
Artwork now lives in one cache per user that is topped up with only missing sprites, fetched with CORS so they count at their real size, with a per-fetch timeout. The offline copy is committed before any artwork, legacy per-sync artwork caches are removed first, and sprites shown online are cached on first load. Also requests persistent storage.
Josh Creek