For me, the author of this article is wrong. On my system, Firefox on Windows, these constant delayed loadings of JavaScript garbage make every website laggy.

For me, the author of this article is wrong. On my system, Firefox on Windows, these constant delayed loadings of JavaScript garbage make every website laggy. Yes, the web has become slower. The author then himself posts that page weights have increased by over 300 percent. Clearly, usability of todays web is generally worse. Web development has changed from a field where competent people cared about user experience given simple and limited tech, to a field where people care about ads and using the latest fad in terrible JavaScript framework tool blah.