Are we paying the technical debt of big corporations that controls the Web?

[darielnoel]

Yesterday I was writing an article with a 5 minutes hack to dramatically improve a Google Web Core Vitals website score. And came up with the following reflection...

I believe that putting the user as a key priority when designing and implementing a website is a must. And appreciate that Google takes steps forward to it adding the Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor. However, I think that they are just passing the problem to us instead of fixing it themselves.

Why instead of creating a complex scoring system and try to enforce people to follow it, why not just implement a solution at a browser level or in a different layer of abstraction?

In that way, small businesses, marketers, designers, and individuals, can spend their time and money CREATING VALUE, instead of being messing around with complex tech solutions.

am I wrong? What do you think about all of this?

[wmf]

There are a bunch of technologies that are trying to create the super-fast AMP experience but without lock-in: never slow mode, feature policy/permission policy, Web packaging, etc.