[epolanski]

> You don't need to make your website fast

You absolutely do, even setting aside UX and accessibility benefits, there's a huge impact in SEO as web core vitals impact seo a lot.

If you are in a niche business or have no competition, then this argument is weaker of course and you're left with the previous 2.

[the__alchemist]

The commenter you're replying to would likely agree - the comment's point isn't about the value of speed, it's that by default pages are fast, and it takes deliberate (but ubiquitous) deviations from the rendered HTML to slow it down.

[epolanski]

My bad then.