Below are some relevant articles I keep going back to that highlight the same phenomenon on the 'decay' of web as a platform (by decay I mean extreme commercialization, excessive bloat, endless tracking and whatnot) made by the linked forum post's author:

* https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/

* https://danluu.com/web-bloat/

* https://medium.com/digital-diplomacy/the-world-wide-web-is-d...

Can't help but agree with most of their assertions.

Also, I just noticed that the author of this forum post uses 'internet' in place of what I feel should be 'web/world wide web' (just some pedantry from me tbh).