Comment by Biganon

The idea that the golden ratio is particularly aesthetically pleasing is 100% snake oil.

Sure, moving a heading slightly higher can make it look much better than if it was perfectly equidistant from the side and the top, but the precise amount depends on a million visual factors. The golden ratio might happen to work fine, but there's nothing magical about it.

Even temples that we thought followed the golden ratio for their dimensions have been measured better, and it turns out they don't. The civilizations back then knew enough so they could have made them very close to the golden ratio, but they didn't. Not always at least.