Worse, almost every site has a cookie “preference” popup (when everyone knows the preference is just the minimum necessary cookies), a newsletter signup popup, and a browser notification request popup.
Add to that the autoplaying videos that will pop out into their own overlay if you scroll away plus the rotating ads of different sizes which cause the page content to shift up and down... oh and the fancy morphing page headers that hang down over the content you’re trying to read if you don’t scroll enough at first.
The web is currently a shitshow of comic proportions, the likes of which not even the most cynical comedians accurately predicted.
The desktop app situation isn’t as bad, but it follows a similar trend of demanding more from the hardware and user (and network) while providing less.
It might actually be better overall if mobile and desktop performance had not increased in the last decade. I swear the end user experience hasn’t on average improved even a fraction as much as the hardware capability has.
What a dismal road we are on.