I was reading an astronaut&#x27;s biography a few days ago, talking about the transition from the moon missions (where every half-hour was planned and accounted for) to Skylab (where people were working in the same place for long enough that it became necessary for them to have free time). And on one level it&#x27;s a huge waste to have someone on the ISS where it&#x27;s costing $x000&#x2F;minute to keep them up there playing candy crush or whatever. But it&#x27;s also a sign of maturity, that we are no longer desperately squeezing out every minute we can possibly get up there.<p>I think we&#x27;re somewhere similar with the web. Internet is plentiful enough that we don&#x27;t need to scrape and squeeze every last kilobyte. Maybe medium takes 3mb to render a simple plain page. That&#x27;s ok.<p>(I do wish a lot of sites would up their information density though. Above all I wish I could get a full-width page, not a phone-width segment down the middle of my widescreen display. At home I&#x27;ve started using a stylesheet that disables max-width on all elements, and I&#x27;ve yet to see a site that looks worse that way)