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The performance and accessibility conversations on web frameworks is the same one for the climate crisis and the pandemic:
Most of the impact is controlled systemically, yet we focus the convo on the individual choices. We treat it like a binary when it's both.
Most of the impact is controlled systemically, yet we focus the convo on the individual choices. We treat it like a binary when it's both.
Both individuals building for the web have a responsibility to leave things better than provided to them (for access and performance—the latter a subset of the former, imho) AND the massive overlords of the web need to understand the massive impact that their choices have.
In buying into this idea that individuals make *all* the choices OR that corporations hold *all* the responsibility leaves NEITHER party "on the hook" when both should be very much on the hook—proportionally, yes, as corporations do far more damage.
We end up fighting about who is responsible in a mutually exclusive manner when the answer is *both.* But so long as we each point the blame to the other without taking responsibility for our part—again, proportionally—we will never get anywhere.
Binarism serves the people who define the binary. As they use their power to keep us focused on fighting each other, we are less focused on dismantling the inextricable at-scale systems they created and on their exploitative actions.
The thesis of my work, perhaps. 
The thesis of my work, perhaps.
