Precision is cheap now. Earliness is rare.
You can nudge a shape half a point, snap it to the grid, tune the easing until it feels alive. Precision like that used to separate people. It doesn't anymore. Everyone has the tools, and most of us have the eye. The craft floor keeps rising, which means the thing that still moves a project is no longer how precise your pixels are. It's when they arrive. Two minutes before the meeting starts. Two weeks before the deadline lands.
Early is a kind of quality that never shows up in the file. Nobody screenshots it for a portfolio. But everyone on the other side feels it. The stakeholder who opens your work three days ahead of schedule reads it in a completely different mood than the one refreshing their inbox at eleven at night on the day it's due. Same pixels, same decisions, same care. Wildly different reception.