> Really, I would be quite fine with, say, most websites operating on a technology level of around 1995. I would pay for that if it was a feature. The good ne

> Really, I would be quite fine with, say, most websites operating on a technology level of around 1995. I would pay for that if it was a feature. The good news is, a lot of old software is still running fine on today's computers and lightning fast compared to modern behemoths. Too bad it's often not very compatible with other people's and organisation's workflows. And the attitudes are sometimes a bit strange because people vastly underestimate the capabilities of certain programs, especially if they run in the terminal. Yes, Vim looks weird at first. But it also doesn't need to spin up a web browser first and starts instantly on pretty much every hardware that you didn't dig out of a museum. Although to be fair I once tinkered a bit with Electron and was surprised at how lightning fast it can be if it's not overburdened. Your comparison with gas is great - it seems optimisation is always done just enough that acceptance from the target audience doesn't suffer too much, and the rest of the performance gain is sunk somewhere in the vast network of dependencies that nobody cared to clean up.