a majority of the web’s growth is coming from developing areas, where mobile connections are the primary way to access the web and service is spotty or unreliable.
This perfectly sums up the state of the web for me.
Think about how maddening trying to load some of your favorite websites is on 3g, or even LTE. Now imagine visiting them on 2g. That’s the web for a billion or so people. Slow. Buggy. Unreliable. Barely usable. Not usable.
Most frontend developers will never ever use their sites in the way that actual users do. We need to do better as a profession, because right now we are rubbish at our jobs.