A Word About Complexity
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Chromium is complex because they indeed solve a complex problem, and I don't think there is much room for a simpler software solution to implement the current web. So the problem is not the implementation, but the choice of what is being implemented. But I'm not sure how this conflicts with the above argument to preserve the ability to modify the software.
My main objective is to make sure that this problem doesn't happen in Dillo, which necessarily means we need to sacrifice many features. A benefit from using source size is that is easy to measure (we do it in the CI) so we avoid a subjective metric.