Probably off topic, but I have to relate this anecdote because its just so funny to me. I took a new job at the beginning of the year. It was to lead developm

Probably off topic, but I have to relate this anecdote because its just so funny to me. I took a new job at the beginning of the year. It was to lead development of v2 of an internal app originally written in Angular and convert/upgrade it to React. I poked around at it a bit before getting started. It seemed fine, maybe a little slow. My version got to the point where it could get up to a dev environment. It again seemed a bit slow. I took a look at the build process and realized it did not include gzip (express/compression). I added that in and yeah it seemed about right. I then took a look at legacy production and... you guessed it, in production for over a year this product had no gzip and was serving a JS payload of 5x what it could be, around 5mb. And no one noticed! My point is people just don't care or maybe they're just inured to it at this point. There's a lot of "oh for every 100ms of loading time Amazon.com loses $xxMM" talk but in the real world? Not what I'm seeing.