It's thinking like that which leads to web page bloat. CPU resources aren't free, especially in an environmental capacity.
Re:Why We Love QUIC and HTTP/3
by manigandham on Sunday March 24, 2019 @11:07PM
(#19480054)
No it's not. Webpage bloat is a developer issue, not a technical problem.
QUIC is a new protocol is to make user experiences better. There's a tradeoff in more server CPU but that's cheaper, more scalable, and will only be short-term as things quickly improve. The actual comparison would be rendering engines and Javascript runtimes that have become more complicated to build and run but are faster and more functional in return.
Nobody would return back to the 2010 tech days just because some people decided to make fat websites.
What "damage" are you talking about? The only issues are compatibility and increased resource utilization on the server-side, both of which will get better as usage increases. It's not a problem. We go through these cycles all the time with all kinds of technology and there's nothing special here.