I feel like Gmail reached a peak of Javascript use just slightly past what the basic-HTML version has, and everything since has just slowed it down and made it

I feel like Gmail reached a peak of Javascript use just slightly past what the basic-HTML version has, and everything since has just slowed it down and made it eat more RAM for little benefit. Sometime between then and now I'm sure they added some "helpful" frameworks that have contributed to the problem. Inbox is even worse. Our children won't believe we ever browsed the web in a graphical multitasking OS on 64mb of RAM and a single processor core. "Don't be silly, that wouldn't even be 1/6 enough to load Google Inbox!"