I kind of bought into skeletons as a dev - because of the hype - but mercilessly purged my created skeletons later because as a user I saw that they were just a

I kind of bought into skeletons as a dev - because of the hype - but mercilessly purged my created skeletons later because as a user I saw that they were just as annoying if not more than spinners. Users want speed, using a spinner or a skeleton won't fix a slow response. The best approach is to CDN everything possible, locally cache everything possible, and show a simple spinner IMO. Spinners are just there to say "wait, please, something is happening". The response time needs to be reasonable, that's all. Users aren't dumb and they know a skeleton is only a (dishonest?) illusion