text-rendering: optimizeLegibility is Decadent and Depraved - Bocoup.
Mat Marquis:
All this typographic power came with a cost: text-rendering: optimizeLegibility is slow—and by “slow,” I mean that it can bog down an entire page, from initial render time to repaints. More than that, though, it’s buggy: Android in particular has serious issues trying to render a page that uses optimizeLegibility heavily
There always seems to be a catch with new "sound to be good to be true" things.