QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

Industry will do absolutely anything, except making lightweight sites.

We had instant internet in the late 90s, if you were lucky enough to have a fast connection. The pages were small and there were barely any javascript. You can still find such fast loading lightweight pages today and the experience is almost surreal.

It feels like the page has completely loaded before you even released the mousebutton.

If only the user experience were better it might have been tolerable but we didn't get that either.

My personal projects are all server rendered HTML. My blog (a statically rendered Hugo site) has no JS at all, my project (Rails and server rendered HTML) has minimal JS that adds some nice to have stuff but nothing else (it works with no JS). I know they're my sites, but the experience is just so much better than most of the rest of the web. We've lost so much.