[npteljes]

>Why did they choose “journalists” when the “death tax” narrative was created by politicians, a much better example group for this conjugation.

I think for the same reason people blame web developers for how websites are built, ignoring that the web developer is not the product manager.

[ukuina]

To be fair, groupthink in web design has generally led to worse performance with 100kb pageloads to show 1kb of content, and this blame generally does not reside with the product manager.

[npteljes]

I'd say that the incentives are aligned in a way that produced the outcome of website bloat. The churn of hardware enables it, service providers have different priorities, and frankly, 99.99% of the users also have different priorities. So, no one is really striving for less bloated pages - including, most importantly, the product managers, whom have all the say of how developer capacity is allocated.

[layer8]

“I was just following orders.”

[npteljes]

I believe in better designed systems, not in individual responsibility. Individual responsibility is a must have, but systemic incentives override that, on a population level, every time. But this can't only be used to build the Third Reich, it can be used for good things too, like building websites with less bloat. Such a change was when Google began to rank pages on loading and other performance criteria, and also provided a tool for people to check their sites. That was a nice incentive for the people who are actually in charge of websites, to have the people who actually build the websites, to build the website to be better.

But if the incentives are perverse, so will be the people.