All of this is true, from a technical standpoint, but does any of it really matter in the modern world?
This sounds a bit like a structural engineer designing an elegant, perfectly constructed shopping mall, and then complaining about the massive corporate/commercial, orgiastic takeover that occurred after the mall opened.
With the exception of bandwidth concerns on data-capped mobile plans and diehard *nix fans that do all their web browsing with Lynx, why does bloat matter? Every one of those linked sites loaded on my home 10Mbps connection in <1 second to my eyes.
Why should I, as a user, have to download all of this crap just to read a text article? I shouldn't. Maybe it takes 1 second to load an article for you, but if it also took 1 second to download a text file decades ago, then what am I as a user gaining?
Aside from that, data-capped mobile plans are extremely common, and in the developing world, they certainly aren't fast. But not only do network connections have limits, but so do the CPU and memory of mobile devices, especially cheap ones.
Your 10 Mbps connection is far from being a given.
Here's a different perspective: I live in a small city close to a major metropolis in Germany. It's small, but far from being at the end of the world.
My only internet options are
a) 1 Mbps DSL (yes, those are Megabits) uncapped or
b) about 25 Mbps (100 in theory) LTE with with a 30 GB cap.
After that cap I'm throttled down to 64 kbps (not joking, this is dial up basically). I can buy additional 30 GB of data at 15€. That's on top of the 45€ base price for the first 30GB.
This sounds a bit like a structural engineer designing an elegant, perfectly constructed shopping mall, and then complaining about the massive corporate/commercial, orgiastic takeover that occurred after the mall opened.
With the exception of bandwidth concerns on data-capped mobile plans and diehard *nix fans that do all their web browsing with Lynx, why does bloat matter? Every one of those linked sites loaded on my home 10Mbps connection in <1 second to my eyes.