The problem is the bad stuff seems to be the norm. I wanted to use Patreon's embed code on my site. The embed loaded megabytes of JavaScript to show a button. All the button does is take you to my Patreon.

I took a screenshot, cropped it, saved it as PNG, and embedded it with a plain old image tag. 3KB vs. 3000KB, and maybe I lost some fancy auto-scaling magic the culled JavaScript did. Big deal.

This is a company that positions itself as the new way for creative people to make a living in the 21st century, and they need multiple megabytes and several seconds to load the 175x36 road into that future. We're not quite in the future yet, and 3MB is still a lot to ask of limited data plans.