I would argue it doesn't even make anyone's life better, except google and advertiders'
Really nice article. It's almost always that optimizing a piece of code involves restructuring the data structure it operates on, instead of altering the details of how it operates on this datastructure. Optimizing compilers are already really good at the latter, while doing nothing about the former
There's currently no place in the fediverse to talk about this
Well, yeah probably some websites will require it, probably google's own will, and people will have to run two browsers for the sites that do, and the sites that don't.
And yeah they can force sites to switch, by downranking them otherwise, like they did with AMP. But I think that'll only really alienate people.