Certainly, if you're using gigantic libraries and frameworks to speed up your development, you might pause to wonder whether trading off faster development for slower loading is a trade-off you want to make, given that most users find speed to be the main problem -- and problems drive consumers away and potentially into the arms of competitors.
It seems to me that old-fashioned, oh-so-dull techniques might not be ready for retirement yet. You know: well-crafted HTML, keeping JavaScript for progressive enhancement rather than a pre-requisite for the page even displaying, and testing across browsers.
They might not be cool. But it's what users want. And if your business doesn't provide it, your competitors will.
Lättnaden i att det finns opinionsbildare som formulerar precis vad man själv tycker och känner. Jag väntar med spänning på att design slutligen backar för kvalitet.