Comment by paimapi

I think it's generally true that nobody really does good testing on machines that aren't top-of-spec and on internet connections that are at least 200MBps via a mesh network of some kind. There's an entire subaltern world of users who experience the worst of UI bloat and incessant network traffic of high-surveillance analytics capture tech (eg Fullstory, Microsoft Clarity) on very meager hardware with not-great internet connections.

Even in the Global North, rural internet is totally shit with no real fiber extensions out. Tech companies imagine a world where their users all uniformly have M5 Pros at minimum with 32GB of RAM (minimum - my last company gave us 128GB as default lol) and gigabit internet - it was always a joke when I would limit network activity and resource usage to emulate worse hardware when testing. That just gets in the way of deadlines and, plus, the poor can't pay for the service so why develop for them?