You’re confidently making a lot of assumptions that don’t generalize.
replyFor example:
> performance is not complicated
Not to mention all your assumptions about the motivations of people who don’t do optimization well. That one can’t possibly generalize.
They are not generalizations. They are frequently repeated observations. The ability to operate from evidence is what determines if you are working with real professionals or children pretenders.
replyMost people are somewhere in the middle, again the dichotomy doesn’t generalize.
replyI would like to half agree to this.
replySaying "Performance is not complicated" is not wrong. People and the systems set up for an application make it complicated. Its harder to check and verify.
I work in UI performance and the biggest thing slowing me down is always people
You measure and improve the metric, but at what cost, when should you stop? Have you worked on a 1mill+ loc web app?
replyYou improve performance for a variety of reasons. You stop when you have competing evidence. The other 99% of the time it’s just developers making bullshit excuses.
replyAnd it's specially easy for the case of CSS: less CSS, more faster.
reply> This is common among people with low social intelligence
replylol What? It's always amusing to me when someone makes absolute claims like "the industry" when having seen < 0.1% of it.