Hear, hear!

Web design is getting out of hand to a point when the size and performance impact of sites and apps keeps growing at a much faster rate than even the powerful processors of today can keep up with. Many sites are almost unusable without an ad/script blocker. Just look at google.com - this page looks pretty much the same is did a decade ago but uses a lot more JS and is bigger in size.

When hunting for WP themes, my eyes are always on the lookout for ones that have "speed and small size" as one of their selling points. Unfortunately, none of the default WP themes seem to care all that much about loading scripts and stylesheets like there is no tomorrow. GeneratePress is currently my favorite theme, although there are many others to choose from as well.