"I'd rather base my opinion on my own personal anecdote than based on stats". My "they are" was referring not to your specific Motorola, but to the "bottom barrel". Which, while improving, still doesn't even remotely justify the bundle sizes or "fat networks".

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The median mobile page is now 2.6 MiB, blowing past the size of DOOM (2.48 MiB) in April [2025]. The 75th percentile site is now larger than two copies of DOOM. P90+ sites are more than 4.5x larger, and sizes at each point have doubled over the past decade.

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Compared with early 2024's estimates, we're seeing budget growth of 600+KiB for three seconds, and a full megabyte of extra headroom at five seconds

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Translation: for P75 (aka for 75% of users) to get a site load in three seconds you need to ship at most 600KB of Javascript