I didn't complain, but ftr, I am a 50ppp user and there was definitely lag in the thread.
It wasn't
unbearable lag, but I'd see it in action by going to the main Politics page and opening a bunch of tabs for unread threads. Then you look up at your browser tabs, and all the threads would have finished loading except the Trump thread, which would lag a few seconds behind.
Again, not terrible, but it's not something people were imagining. In gif form, comparing the opening of the LC thread to the Trump thread: