I agree with the sentiment the web has gotten slow for no reason in some ways, but at the end of the day not everything that has made the web so "heavy" is Js d

I agree with the sentiment the web has gotten slow for no reason in some ways, but at the end of the day not everything that has made the web so "heavy" is Js developer self-pleasuring and ad-tech. A modern browser has PDF rendering, video rendering, 3D, AR/VR, a camera viewer, an RTC platform, a screencaster, and much much more. If you tried to run the equivalents of all of this from back in the day at the same time, you'd also bring those old PCs to a crawl too. I feel like I see the argument that tweet makes a lot and the answer if you look at what browsers are expected to do now is... yeah actually it does. - There is a real problem of what we're doing with all that power sometimes, but the drive was created by real need from users. The wild west days of installing a new piece of software for every single utility were great for technical people, but not so great for making the PC an accessible piece of technology