Looking at the criticism made about some recent redesigns (reddit, facebook, etc) it seems that the main complaint (from a user point of view, at least) is how slow it feels compared to the previous version or to a "simple" site with HTML, CSS, and a little bit of javascript.
I haven't checked it recently, but when the new reddit UI was released, scrolling was terrible on my $2500k laptop. It felt slow. Everything was sluggish. It also downloaded a few MB of javascript on pages that essentially had a thumbnail, a title, and some comments (not everyone lives in a big city or is connected to a super fast internet connection!). When the page was loaded, I was seeing more scrolling lag because they lazyload some content. I mean, it's hard to like this "modern web".
As a user, I don't care about how things work behind the scenes. I don't mind some javascript on a page, after all we don't need a page reload just to preview a comment or "like" something. You can even use javascript for everything, I don't mind. But it needs to be fast and it needs to work well... and right now some "modern" sites provide a worse experience than before.
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Looking at the criticism made about some recent redesigns (reddit, facebook, etc) it seems that the main complaint (from a user point of view, at least) is how slow it feels compared to the previous version or to a "simple" site with HTML, CSS, and a little bit of javascript.
I haven't checked it recently, but when the new reddit UI was released, scrolling was terrible on my $2500k laptop. It felt slow. Everything was sluggish. It also downloaded a few MB of javascript on pages that essentially had a thumbnail, a title, and some comments (not everyone lives in a big city or is connected to a super fast internet connection!). When the page was loaded, I was seeing more scrolling lag because they lazyload some content. I mean, it's hard to like this "modern web".
As a user, I don't care about how things work behind the scenes. I don't mind some javascript on a page, after all we don't need a page reload just to preview a comment or "like" something. You can even use javascript for everything, I don't mind. But it needs to be fast and it needs to work well... and right now some "modern" sites provide a worse experience than before.