Having used 14.4k dialup on a 486DX2-66MHz at 640 x 480 VGA, I really don't think 2020s technology is outstandingly slow.
I don't even think most phone apps are bloated, because most phone apps - and web sites - are just electronic forms decorated with a bit of eye candy.
Security and reliability worry me far more. Many sites have obvious bugs in $favourite_browser, and some just don't work at all. Some of this is down to ad blocking, but that shouldn't be a problem - and the flip side is that blocking ads, trackers, and unwanted cookies seems to do wonders for page load speeds.
I've used an 8 bit computer with a 300 baud modem. One bbs I dialed into was a 8 bit computer with a whopping 4mb of ram. It was the fastest response time of any computer I've every used. Everything was in ram, and coded in assembly with speed and low code space as the concern.
Modern computers should be much faster, but they aren't. They do more, but when you do something you notice the slow speed.
I don't even think most phone apps are bloated, because most phone apps - and web sites - are just electronic forms decorated with a bit of eye candy.
Security and reliability worry me far more. Many sites have obvious bugs in $favourite_browser, and some just don't work at all. Some of this is down to ad blocking, but that shouldn't be a problem - and the flip side is that blocking ads, trackers, and unwanted cookies seems to do wonders for page load speeds.