You are misinterpreting again. All nthn's examples were examples of other things that are prevalent nowadays, in addition to bad web design.

All could be summarized with simple, "take as much as you can".
As opposed to, "take as little as you have to".

If you are under 35, then you may consider it normal and not even realize it is going on. You need to allocate a memory block for some operation? Old skool geezers like me would calculate exactly how many bytes are needed and allocate exactly that. The current approach is, allocate at least a megabyte, just in case. Memory is cheap, nobody cares. In my previous job, we ran into a bandwidth problem. My preferred approach would be, profile the system, find bottlenecks, optimize. The (much younger) tech lead opted for allocating more resources. I could give millions of other examples.