The real problem is that "the modern web" has metastasized into a bloated monstrosity of feature creep orders of magnitude larger than it ever should have reach

The real problem is that "the modern web" has metastasized into a bloated monstrosity of feature creep orders of magnitude larger than it ever should have reached. The internet worked on my Windows XP computer. There is scarcely little more the internet does for me today than it did then, yet somehow simply opening a modern web browser requires more memory than my entire operating system did at that time.