[stupidthrottle]

As an end-user... why should I care if the bloat I download is CSS, or assets pulled via the CSS?

There’s literally no distinction.

[moreira]

We're talking about different pages - one is the page with the blog post about this 339 bytes of responsive CSS (it's 2+MB). The other is the demo page with 339 bytes of CSS + the web font. The former is what the parent was talking about.