>...and if some of those things are slower or less accessible, that's a tradeoff people are entitled to make.

It depends. My country (Germany) introduced accessibility laws recently which enforces you to build everything public with accessibility in mind. If a page doesn't meet the expected standard you can get extremely high fines.

That makes a lot of sense! I suppose that BMW has been fined billions for making motorcycles that blind people can't drive safely?

Sir this post is about front end development/products.