With respect for the people who talk about the technologies involved, server-side vs client, bandwidth vs latency, etc, etc, etc. I don’t think any of that is

With respect for the people who talk about the technologies involved, server-side vs client, bandwidth vs latency, etc, etc, etc. I don’t think any of that is really the core of it. Humanity sent spaceships to the moon with way less power than a smart watch. After watching tech evolve over my lifetime, the real issue feels like it’s about the psychological choice: When more power is available we fill it with either less efficient code, more layers of abstraction, or more features. (Besides outliers) this seems to be true no matter what the tech, and is especially obvious on the web.