People tend to really suck at limiting themselves. If you're wandering around in gemini space you're not going to run into pages with lots of ad banners, trackers and other monetization BS. You pretty much can't. On the web, you can run into simple fast pages but it's getting less and less the norm. And the lack of easy ways to monetize means it's unattractive to corporations, which helps avoid creeping enshittification.

Gemini is light, simple, and easy to parse. It's just lightly marked up text. Compare the size of Lagrange with the size of Chrome or Firefox. And nobody is forcing you to use it. 🙂