Mostly its the fault of us web developers. We started building mobile-optimized sites, and that messed everything up. Now every mobile-"friendly" site has bloat

Mostly its the fault of us web developers. We started building mobile-optimized sites, and that messed everything up. Now every mobile-"friendly" site has bloated retina graphics and uses very specific and carefully developed layout mechanisms that abandon zooming, fluid layouts and graceful degradation, because, you know, it's mobile, so that stuff doesn't make sense there. If we'd all just done nothing, the mobile web would be in a lot better state than it is. (My personal pet peeve is onswipe, the most horrible mobile experience ever imagined, always worse than the desktop site on the same device, and yet ubiquitous.)