There’s a disconnect between the author and the comments section here. The author claims that yes, websites are getting heavier but improvements in bandwidth,

There’s a disconnect between the author and the comments section here. The author claims that yes, websites are getting heavier but improvements in bandwidth, CPUs, protocols (like http2) and browsers offsets this to make the web as fast or faster for the median web user. Comments here express frustration with those increased bundle sizes, especially in cases where we aren’t getting any features in return. Both sets of folks are talking past each other because there is disagreement over the metric. The author wants to use load times as seen by users in wealthy countries. The comments folks want to use KB or features per KB (subjective). There’s no right or wrong here, just different metrics.