Comment by wtetzner

> Time is the one thing that isn't cheap here.

Right, and that's true of end users as well. It's just not taken into account by most businesses.

I think your take is pretty reasonable, but I think most software is too far towards slow and bloated these days.

Browsers are pretty good, but developers create horribly slow and wasteful web apps. That's where the optimization should be done. And I don't mean they should make things as fast as possible, just test on an older machine that a big chunk of the population might still be using, and make it feel somewhat snappy.

The frustrating part is that most web apps aren't really doing anything that complicated, they're just built on layers of libraries that the developers don't understand very well. I don't really have a solution to any of this, I just wish developers cared a little bit more than they do.