[jakemal]

> If I owned an iPhone 6 in 2015 and own a Samsung A50 today, and the web is slower and jankier today than it was five years ago, then isn't it fair to say that the web got slower?

Yes. But what do you suggest as an alternative? Refuse to take advantage of technological progress to cater to the small portion of the population who haven't updated their phones in half a decade?

[kradeelav]

Then a surprisingly large segment of the population will passively or actively refuse to visit sites with bloated webpages. Goes both ways.

[philwelch]

If only there were technological progress to take advantage of! "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."