feat: smooth view transitions, no skeleton flash

User pain point: skeleton loading.tsx files made the app feel like
a sequence of page reloads, exposing backend latency. Replaced with
a single 1px shimmer bar + crossfade via React's <ViewTransition>.

Changes:
- Enable experimental.viewTransition in next.config.ts
- Add SmoothViewTransition wrapper (ViewTransition name=page-content)
- Add LoadingFade component: thin animated bar instead of skeleton
- Add RouteAnnouncer for a11y (screen readers + focus reset)
- Add ::view-transition-old/new CSS for the crossfade (220ms, no
  jarring slide, respects prefers-reduced-motion)
- Wrap admin/tuxedo/IRD layout children in SmoothViewTransition
  (sidebar/header/footer stay mounted; only the body fades)
- Replace 19 skeleton loading.tsx files with the fade component

Result: navigation now feels like a single app, not a series of
preload-and-render events. The user never sees a 'skeleton of the
page they're about to load.'

src/components/transitions/LoadingFade.tsx

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+"use client";
+
+import { ViewTransition } from "react";
+
+/**
+ * Subtle loading placeholder used in place of skeleton `loading.tsx`
+ * files. Instead of a flashy "skeleton of the page you're waiting for",
+ * this renders a single thin animated bar that crossfades into the
+ * real content via the View Transitions API. The previous page stays
+ * visible underneath until the new page is ready, so the user never
+ * feels the gap.
+ *
+ * Drop this in a `loading.tsx` file:
+ *
+ *   // app/admin/loading.tsx
+ *   import { LoadingFade } from "@/components/transitions/LoadingFade";
+ *   export default LoadingFade;
+ */
+export function LoadingFade() {
+  return (
+    <ViewTransition name="page-content" update="default">
+      <div
+        className="fixed top-0 left-0 right-0 z-50 h-0.5 overflow-hidden"
+        aria-hidden="true"
+      >
+        <div
+          className="h-full w-1/3 rounded-full"
+          style={{
+            background:
+              "linear-gradient(90deg, transparent 0%, #14532D 50%, transparent 100%)",
+            animation: "transition-shimmer 1.4s ease-in-out infinite",
+          }}
+        />
+      </div>
+    </ViewTransition>
+  );
+}
+
+export default LoadingFade;

src/components/transitions/RouteAnnouncer.tsx

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+"use client";
+
+import { usePathname } from "next/navigation";
+import { useEffect } from "react";
+
+/**
+ * Announce route changes to assistive tech. Without this, screen-reader
+ * users see no signal that navigation completed because the view
+ * transition is intentionally seamless for sighted users.
+ *
+ * The announcer also restores the keyboard focus to the top of the new
+ * page after navigation, so tab order picks up where the user expects
+ * (not stuck on the link they just clicked).
+ */
+export function RouteAnnouncer() {
+  const pathname = usePathname();
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    // Reset focus to the page wrapper so keyboard nav continues from
+    // the top, not from the link in the sidebar.
+    const target = document.getElementById("page-content") ?? document.body;
+    if (target && "tabIndex" in target) {
+      (target as HTMLElement).tabIndex = -1;
+      (target as HTMLElement).focus({ preventScroll: true });
+    }
+  }, [pathname]);
+
+  return (
+    <div
+      role="status"
+      aria-live="polite"
+      aria-atomic="true"
+      className="sr-only"
+    >
+      {/* Text is intentionally empty — the live region is the
+          announcement channel; the actual title is set per page via
+          the <h1> rendered inside the layout. */}
+    </div>
+  );
+}

src/components/transitions/SmoothViewTransition.tsx

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+"use client";
+
+import { ViewTransition } from "react";
+import type { ReactNode } from "react";
+
+/**
+ * Smooth view-transition wrapper for any page-section content.
+ *
+ * Drop this around the main content area of a route (or around an
+ * individual <Suspense> chunk) to opt that subtree into a soft
+ * crossfade on navigation. The browser's native View Transitions API
+ * handles the actual animation — when the browser doesn't support it,
+ * the children just swap, no error.
+ *
+ * `name` groups elements so the browser can morph the same element
+ * across pages. Use the same name on the source and destination (e.g.
+ * the page header) for shared-element morphing. Use the default
+ * `"page-content"` for plain crossfades.
+ *
+ * The default `update="default"` plus a CSS `::view-transition-old/new`
+ * rule (see globals.css) gives us a 220ms crossfade with a tiny
+ * downward shift on the incoming page — fast enough to feel like a
+ * single app, slow enough to soften the cut between routes.
+ *
+ * Usage:
+ *   <main>
+ *     <SmoothViewTransition>{children}</SmoothViewTransition>
+ *   </main>
+ */
+export function SmoothViewTransition({
+  children,
+  name = "page-content",
+}: {
+  children: ReactNode;
+  name?: string;
+}) {
+  return (
+    <ViewTransition
+      name={name}
+      // `default` runs a CSS-driven crossfade using the
+      // ::view-transition-* pseudo-elements defined in globals.css.
+      // Other options: "none" (instant cut), or a custom string your
+      // CSS can match.
+      update="default"
+    >
+      {children}
+    </ViewTransition>
+  );
+}