A fun thing about reading Alex is that you can tell he's had the same arguments over and over again for a decade now and he's frustrated with having to keep on making the same points and getting the exact same responses.
Most of the people commenting on this piece won't have read this whole article (it's long, and internet attention spans are short). As a result, you'll find plenty of the comments here were exactly predicted by his writing.
I see him as something of a Cassandra at this point, doomed to see the truth about web performance based on many years of research... and then to have nobody believe him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
Most of the people commenting on this piece won't have read this whole article (it's long, and internet attention spans are short). As a result, you'll find plenty of the comments here were exactly predicted by his writing.
I see him as something of a Cassandra at this point, doomed to see the truth about web performance based on many years of research... and then to have nobody believe him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra