Many said features don't do anything and are empty promises. It just causes "pop-in" of content, which annoys users to no end. Slower connections may end up waiting for content and leave, because it loaded too slow. Even worse is a JS error may stop the AJAX from working all together any it may never load in at all. As well as "layered" content (such as what you saw with required field) will never load in as it's "not shown".
Caching is also another bad idea on a dynamic site as content changes rapidly and caching is built around storing data then re-displaying the stored data, which will always be out of date.
Then there's CSS/JS compression which merges all of Joomlas header styles and JS into single files then compresses them. This causes absolute/relative pathing to completely break in them. In most cases will also cause massive conflicts as well. This also results in 1 giant file downloading to the user instead of several smaller files; so it's really zero performance gain for the user. Browsers already cache CSS/JS anyway so after initial load it doesn't even matter.
Just some tips if anyone is to see such features in templates. Simply put; don't use them.
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