This I think is the point. The requirements are different, but to look at many web pages you'd not notice.

Too many resources that could be relatively simple pages with some code to aid user experience, are becoming massive full-blown applications pulling in megabytes of code and supporting assets.

Your game requires that code and those assets by its very nature. The vast majority of web pages/sites do not, and can probably be just as beautiful without (if not more so, as speed and responsiveness is part of aesthetic judgements).

While I understand your frustration, I would certainly understand a web game loading more JS than, I dunno, some major text-oriented web sites where a similar page can be written with minimal or even no JS.

You wouldn’t need such APIs if the developers didn’t shove so much baggage at the user. If the problem really is the result of competence then even the best APIs ever written won’t fix this.