Your quip here ignores the original conversation, which is about "dev tools for designers." You also conflate the "bygone days" of slower connections with the "bygone days" of monolithic rich media binaries/downloads.
Average web page size has increased dramatically over the last decade [1][2], suggesting "massive sites" are more of a today-problem than a bygone one.
I understand "Flash" was the trigger-word here, and it is for a lot of people. "Flash Player" the consumer experience was fundamentally different from "Flash," the creation environment. Flash the "dev tool for designers" was the baby thrown out with the bath water.
Bloated websites are still a problem and life is a matter of perspective. For those in crummy parts of the world including some backwaters in the US I'm sure bloated sites are especially annoying.
During flashes heyday though virtually everyone was effected. Almost everyone had a slow connection and we pushed slow flashy crap out anyway. Who were we designing experiences for?
Average web page size has increased dramatically over the last decade [1][2], suggesting "massive sites" are more of a today-problem than a bygone one.
I understand "Flash" was the trigger-word here, and it is for a lot of people. "Flash Player" the consumer experience was fundamentally different from "Flash," the creation environment. Flash the "dev tool for designers" was the baby thrown out with the bath water.
[1] https://www.keycdn.com/support/the-growth-of-web-page-size/ [2] https://www.yottaa.com/a-brief-history-of-web-page-size/