This blurb was painful to read.

The entire page, sans Adblock-able advertisements is 900KB-1MB.

Granted, that includes:

The site's scripts - which can ostensibly increase usability

Images - which help tell the story, establish branding and increase usability

Stylesheets - which make a page visually appealing and increase usability.

If you want to complain about the state of the Web, at least take into the account that the Web/Hypertext is about more than just text.