[yokai]

So you'd be happy to wait 4-5 seconds to allow a page to load?

It already takes pages (from time to time) to load, 3-4 seconds. Increase in one second isn't a whole lot. Plus, with such a bland approach to design, people lose interest in the looks and the lack of interactive elements is a sure way to give people the feeling of; "what can I actually do?". Not to mention the lack of Blaze features. Approaches such as this aims to fix that. "Where there is light, shadows are sure to follow." Meaning, you cannot have the best of two worlds. However, in this case, the good out weight the bad by a lot. So yes, I would easily be okay with having to wait another second or two to have a overall better time at the site.

(Heck I wait longer when I swap songs on Spotify or change Youtube video.)