The page probably gets currently much more traffic than usual.

Reminds me a bit of the MNT Reform: https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform

No, you’re not.

I would guess that many tickets are “one away from winning”, so that you keep playing.

I remember IE6, it was great!

I feel that:

There are two attitudes on display here which I see in a lot of software folks. First, that CPU speed is infinite and one shouldn’t worry about CPU optimization. And second, that gigantic speedups from hardware should be expected and the only reason hardware engineers wouldn’t achieve them is due to spectacular incompetence, so the slow software should be blamed on hardware engineers, not software engineers.