Today&#x27;s web is ridiculous. It looks like if developers and designers are increasingly becoming a bunch of kids with delusions of grandeur and IQ around 50, living in total denial about reasonableness of their work.<p>Just imagine you&#x27;re going to the newsstand to buy a newspaper, and instead you get a package containing blank sheets of paper, a microfilm scanner and a roll of microfilm, with instructions telling you to go home, scan the film and print the content yourself. You&#x27;d be on fire. You&#x27;d write to the publisher, asking them what the fuck they&#x27;re doing. Even ignoring the additional time and money you&#x27;ll have to spend printing the newsppaper yourself, it surely must be cheaper to print it all with industrial machines than making an equal amounts of goddamn microfilm and scanners for it! Economies of scale and stuff.<p>And yet this is normal on the web. Prepping content for client-side JS generation takes similar amounts of time (if not more) to just rendering the page on server. And then they have to send a) the content, and b) JS to render it, which takes more space than a rendered page, and <i>then</i> every client has to render it on its own. They&#x27;re wasting electricity on every goddamn step of the pipeline, from servers through the network to the client. It&#x27;s like electricity is free so they can all show everyone a giant fuck you, because hey, if it&#x27;s free then let&#x27;s waste it all.<p>Ok, I got carried away. But my point still stands. Dear JS-first website maker - I&#x27;m not willing to view your ads until you start covering my electricity bills for all the coal that got wasted on your idiotic client-side-rendering contraptions.