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I think there are a couple of reasons to this: 1. Lack of expertise/interest, as you say. One root cause here is that there are many devs in web development wh

I think there are a couple of reasons to this: 1. Lack of expertise/interest, as you say. One root cause here is that there are many devs in web development who are self-taught, with no CS background. 2. Time pressure and contractual agreements: Things need to be finish ASAP to reduce cost, and implementation contracts usually state features and looks, but not performance or maintainability. 3. Many effects, such as sticky elements, couldn't be done in CSS just a few years ago, so devs got used to include libraries for these things. In fact, I think many modern CSS features got introduce because they were widely used, but with JS implementations.

DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
> there are many devs in web development who are self-taught, with no CS background. That's an excuse when you're just getting started, but after 3 or 4 years everyone has had time to figure these things out. There's papers, blog posts, youtube videos... even wikipedia can help in understanding performance on the web. If you've been doing web for 5 years and still don't know these things, it's not because you're self-taught; it's because you're lazy and/or being overworked with not enough room for learning.