Yes, it's the "WorldWideWeb", not the "EqualityWideWeb". Wealth inequality is a thing, and it exists even in the west. But how does that help us? The web is still slow at the end of the day for those on older HW. Does crying about it help how? Or does upgrading to newer and better HW help those who can afford to?

And if western web-devs cared so much about the experience of the users in poor countries, why haven't they optimized it already to run better on older devices?

webdevs ≠ corporations

What's your point exactly?

When most people go online they go to consume content on the websites of the biggest corporations like Google, YouTube, Netflix, Reddit, Facebook, TicTok and so on.

That's what most of the internet is for most average consumers.

The fact that indie devs exist who care about well optimized websites doesn't change this.

The cormobidty of keeping a service alive and renewing it by forcing more and more unwanted features on the users is a fact. Every manager wants to parade around the new shiny thing without listening to their development team. It shows that you are not a webdev because you don't know the inner workings of a big tech corp if you really think it's just some indie devs that care about speed and optimization. The devs very much care.

By web-devs I didn't mean your average employee but any company doing web development and making bad decisions.

I have nothing against the individuals doing web-development, it's just a job to eat and pay rent.