I've not investigated it to prove my hypothesis, but I've long suspected that CSS doesn't get enough of the blame for the modern Web being so bloated and resour

I've not investigated it to prove my hypothesis, but I've long suspected that CSS doesn't get enough of the blame for the modern Web being so bloated and resource-hungry. But then, I still remember when it was considered disrespectful to the user and generally ill-advised to ship vector graphics unless absolutely necessary, because it'd offload too much processing on the client and harm performance. Now people do 3D transforms of DIVs and apply blur and such with CSS on every page load because pre-calculating it would be more work (or practically impossible). And they think nothing of doing this, maybe dozens of times on a single page.