Gmail renders at 5fps and nobody cares. Performance culture is a cope.

Despite scrolling at approximately 5 frames per second in a crowded inbox, billions of people use Gmail every single day without mass-migrating to a “faster” email client. This should indicate something uncomfortable about how we spend our time as engineers. The Inconvenient Truth About Speed We treat performance like a moral virtue. A slow app is a bad app, built by lazy developers. A fast app is a good app, built by craftspeople . However, the reality is different. Gmail performs slowly. Slack