Also it eliminates the substantial number of people without broadband or
sufficiently capable computers (such as, oh, everyone in my extended
family three links in any direction, bar only me and a cousin: if this
sort of ratio is common that's a huge numer of people being excluded).
It's annoying for those of us with slow broadband links (why pay lots
extra for fast broadband? I don't need it. And lots of people can't get it
at all.)