I would think of this type of "optimization" as benign, but I think it's worse than that because it distracts and takes time and attention from what to do inste

I would think of this type of "optimization" as benign, but I think it's worse than that because it distracts and takes time and attention from what to do instead like using Lighthouse. To the author's credit, that page gets a perfect, 100, Lighthouse performance score.