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At some point, probably in the 1980s, people probably decided that computers could update UI fast enough, so any additional compute power or speed has been used for other things like making it prettier or reducing development effort or time, and now ai

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The problem is that the UI speed largely was not kept at that level but considerably slowed down again despite exponentially growing compute power.

I've heard it before and believe it that one reason is because many of the developers are working on new maxed-out machines and network connections both at work and home, so they don't notice problems for older or cheaper ones and/or can't justify it to management.

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