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npm install everything --force

Thats mostly because of the overload quantity of ads, trackers, plugins, integrations, etc all websites have now. Using an adblocker halves your bandwidth usage. If you have a data cap, an adblocker is a must.

And then, optimization. As an Angular developer, knowing many websites nowadays are Angular or similar, the lack of optimization is a big problem. Most don't even use lazy loading, not to mention managing the module imports into different components. They import everything into the main component and don't do lazy loading leading you to websites that have 20-40MB (!!!) of initial load (when you open the website). This is so common that I think junior angular devs will slowly just kill angular popularity and give it a bad look. Takes work to optimize Angular, and many devs don't care enough and just rush it. And then there are companies that don't understand that web frameworks need optimization and just underpay devs or rush the dev time.

Please don't use Angular (or similar complex web frameworks like Vue or React) if you don't know how to correctly optimize it, or don't have time or care for it. And don't overload your pages with ads and integrations. You are ruining the web.

I'd hazard a guess and say it all stems from advancements in tech. There was a need to get the most out of something because of limited resources. Now that everyone's got some fairly serious hardware (yes, even the cheap shit), there's rarely that urge to optimize.

Rather than optimize each new technology as it comes along and gets adopted, it seems as though the mantra is "fuck it, add it to the pile". And it snowballs. As developers feel the need to optimize less, the lessons get passed down to the next generation, and so on.

So we're left with apps/end-user stuff that appear to have been on the opposite of a diet.