By 99%, I meant 99% of users don't care (much or at all) about the things these crazy templates tend to offer, they just want to read the article. I remember Domas complaining about this last hackathon when...fixing...ocwiki.
Any article that uses slow templates that take forever to render is hard to edit (since there is always a fresh parse). Making such pages hard to edit or slow to view for users who are logged in and might have a few custom preferences or otherwise have a generic cache miss is pretty disappointing. It also is discouraging to new editors trying to change the page. Maybe it's a result of the "don't care about performance" policy taken to extremes.
I've been pushing for Lua for months (rather than delay on JS vs Lua), and I'm glad it's gotten steam again. Hopefully it will make these problems moot. I'm also glad to see the increased focus on new editors in general (from the features team).
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