The problems GP listed have nothing to do with the size of JS or any other loaded resources, except for maybe adding a handful of bytes to the 2KB of CSS. The

The problems GP listed have nothing to do with the size of JS or any other loaded resources, except for maybe adding a handful of bytes to the 2KB of CSS. The trouble is conflating "what used to be good about the Internet" with deliberately making a website difficult to read and less accessible, when there's absolutely no reason those things need to be correlated.