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My guess is that it’s going to be a tradeoff between functionality and compatibility.

Wikipedia is consulted every day by a lot of people, i guess that a large number of those people are running older browsers.

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Mediawiki itself is built to support 10-year old phones (which is why the Moto G makes an appearance in the post - it's the official low-end Android benchmark) and older desktop operating systems. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Browsers

Makes sense since the Moto G is also what Lighthouse and a lot of tools driven by it use. So PageSpeed Insights (pagespeed.web.dev), the Lighthouse developer in Chrome tab and even external services like https://totalwebtool.com all generally evaluate mobile performance using it to simulate a slower experience.

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