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Can a googler chime in to explain why Gmail is so slow at loading even on the most robust PCs with high speed internet?

Try this one: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/77z33rvyv1lz It's HTML version of gmail and it loads instantly.

It's so fast! Blink and it's fully loaded! Also kind of looks better too. But that's subjective, I guess.

Because you are supposed to load it once and keep it forever. Loading a web app is like installing a software program.

What about web apps like https://sr.ht which are fully loaded and usable from a cold visit in under half a second with only 2 network requests?