Tor is faster than it used to be but this person is not wrong. 2-3x slower is a conservative estimate.

Yeah I was going to say, if Tor is only 3x slower I'm switching right now. Last time I used it it was on the order of 20x slower.

I think it's heavily dependant on the site you're using. Loading this page in Firefox on android with a pretty crappy connection took ~2 seconds. In the Tor browser it was ~6seconds

Definitely slower and this is a pretty minimal page, but I've got a hunch it really starts to choke when a page is loading a ton of different css/js assets at load

No its not this slow . You can basically use to to web browse normally , even on heavy js pages.

What's still often slow in Tor is making initial connections to hidden (onion) services. Last year during a DDoS attack on Tor this was unreasonably slow and took minutes or more, at which point sites just appeared broken. Once connected, though, it would still work pretty well. So if your experience is using Tor to access onion services you might have an inflated idea of its slowness for normal purposes.

Visits to normal websites were only somewhat affected and were still pretty reliable.

I use it regularly and don't find the latency that painful, though not negligible.

Not been slow compared to what? It's been slow for me any time I've tried it.

Compared to regular non-Tor web browsing. But impressions are subjective, I suppose.

I don't think they are subjective at all. Tor is inherently slow based on how it works. It has gotten faster since inception but even in last year or two it is a multiple slower. Until that is non-existent adoption will be challenging at best.

What I’m saying is that Tor used to be, many years ago, annoyingly slow, sometimes even excruciatingly so. But today I don’t even notice that I’m using Tor. It might be “a multiple” slower, but I don’t notice it, is my point.

Much faster than in the past, but still annoyingly slow by all means