I had to laugh at this but, and I'm not making excuses for Medium here, that is sadly lightweight compared with a lot of sites on the web.
Still, the "ship less JavaScript" comment rings true: people need to stop cargo-culting all the things into their front-ends. It's colossally annoying at the best of times, and the more-so when you're browsing over a 3G connection. You can basically forget using a lot of websites nowadays if you haven't at least got 3G, and plenty aren't that great on anything less than a 4G connection.
Still, the "ship less JavaScript" comment rings true: people need to stop cargo-culting all the things into their front-ends. It's colossally annoying at the best of times, and the more-so when you're browsing over a 3G connection. You can basically forget using a lot of websites nowadays if you haven't at least got 3G, and plenty aren't that great on anything less than a 4G connection.