It Works Or Not, There Is No In Between

The eternal paradox of modern developers: old enough to have survived the screech of 56k modems and the patience-building exercise of waiting 3 minutes for a single webpage, yet completely rewired by modern infrastructure to expect sub-second response times. Your tolerance for latency has been optimized down to milliseconds, and anything beyond that 5-second threshold triggers an immediate tab closure. It's like your brain got trained on Google's Core Web Vitals without even reading the documentation. The real kicker? You probably spend hours optimizing your own sites to load in under 2 seconds while simultaneously abandoning any site that dares to make you wait. The performance budget goes both ways, folks.