A decade ago, a tribe of JS partisans took the web by the reins, forked HTML and JS syntax, and yeeted userland abstractions into the critical path because "a better user experience".
This was premised on the idea that everyone's CPUs/networks would get faster the way their top-end phones did.
They could not have been more wrong.
JS-first web development has been a planetary-scale exercise in the rich making life harder for the less well-off.
There have, of course, been good reasons to lean on userland abstraction – Safari sandbagged platform advancement, much the way IE6 used to – but repeated warnings didn't cause a change in developer behaviour.
The pushback to this sitrep in 2016 was *furious*:
https://youtu.be/4bZvq3nodf4?si=A7MLssnnn-GKnv8c