Although the author sounds a bit "boomer-ish" and "get off my lawn" in his blog post, I do agree with him in essence. Especially his quip about websites being

Although the author sounds a bit "boomer-ish" and "get off my lawn" in his blog post, I do agree with him in essence. Especially his quip about websites being just JavaScript which generates the HTML. I have an old MacBook Air which I use when I have to work while travelling. This doesn't happen often, so I didn't replace it. It's mind-boggling how slow the web has gotten on it. If developers developed on older machines, they would get so frustrated by the bloat that it would get solved overnight. I think the industry (generalizing) doesn't care about this, because bandwidth, loading-times etc. are external costs and if one "moves fast and breaks things" in hope of getting another round of VC funding, then there is no time to care about this. In my view, the web gets worse with every new JS dependency/framework and what not. Oh and if your website or web-app doesn't work without javascript (generalizing) then it is part of the problem.