There is a clear and widespread cultural problem with javascript. Sites should think seriously hard about server side rendering, both for user privacy (can't port the site to i2p if you drop 5MB every time they load a page) and freedom. Even this antibloat site smacks you with ~100KB and links to one that smacks you with ~200KB. At this rate if you follow 20 links you'll hit a site with 104 GB of JS.
> Sites should think seriously hard about server side rendering
You think the average site owner plus wix/squarespace is going to spend a lot of money beefing up their CPU and RAM to marginally "improve user experience" when they could and have been offloading rendering client side all these years?
> Sites should think seriously hard about server side rendering...
The rise of AI crawlers makes that ever less appetizing. Moving the workloads to the client is, among other things, a form of DoS mitigation.