Nailed it.

I find it pretty annoying that people mischaracterize the dislike of the modern web as nostalgia. The modern web is a big wasteful resource hog that expects users to just randomly download and run JavaScript programs.

And another thing: A modern web browser has to be incredibly performant because of all the bloat, and also have a robust enough sandbox to just download JavaScript programs from the Internet and run them. So we’ve ended up in a situation where only Google can (plausibly pretend to) have a good enough sandbox for this use-case.

This isn’t just nostalgic grumpiness, we’ve gone from a diverse ecosystem to a hugely fragile tech monoculture run by an ad company.