Why do web site developers insist on ruining functionality with whiz-bang?

[Hawkmoon]

Reviving the thread because whiz-bang-web-site is hitting a little closer to home tomorrow.

My civic club is considering a revised web site. A member's son fancies himself a site developer. Aside from the insanely high cost he's quoting for "administration" (which is mostly social media plugins and a bunch of useless site gadgets we'll never use) he gave us this gem as an example of his prowess.

http://www.charitywater.org/

It's awful. Tomorrow it's being presented to the Board of Directors. I can't wait... 

Brad

It took over a minute for that link to load. More than half of that I was staring at a blank screen. Not encouraging.

[RevDisk]

Why do web site developers insist on ruining functionality with whiz-bang?

Because they can. And will.

[just Warren]

This might not be directly on topic but what's the deal with a page loading like 5-6 or more times so that when you hit the back button it doesn't take you back to the page you want but rather the page you are trying to leave.

Really frustrating.