[…] these checks don’t come for free. They can have a significant impact on web performance depending on what browser a user is using, and the location they are browsing from. And if a site uses an EV certificate, it is forcing the most popular browser on the planet (Chrome) to open a revocation check, which will have an impact on performance for those users who visit your site using it. It makes you wonder if the ‘perceived’ advantages of using an EV certificate are really worth it? Personally, I don’t see any advantages, only disadvantages.

"We created Let’s Encrypt in order to make getting and managing TLS certificates as simple as possible. For Let’s Encrypt subscribers, this usually means obtaining an ACME client and executing some simple commands. Ultimately though, we’d like for most Let’s Encrypt subscribers to have ACME clients built in to their server software so that obtaining an additional piece of software is not necessary. The less work people have to do to deploy HTTPS the better!"