A lot of people are bringing up Wirth's law or other things, but I want to get more specific.
Has anyone else noticed how bad sign-on redirect flows have gotten in the past ~5 years?
It used to be you clicked sign in, and then you were redirected to a login page. Now I typically see my browser go through 4+ redirects, stuck at a white screen for 10-60 seconds.
I'm a systems C++ developer and I know nothing about webdev. Can someone _please_ fill me in on what's going on here and how every single website has this new slowness?
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