I love Lynx, too. I connect my retro computers to the internet through my Mac. Unfortunately, Lynx has bugs that you can't see on modern machines that show up on old, low speed connections.
For example, when connecting to a web site, it displays a whole bunch of connection status information that I just don't care about. Enough that it's intrusive.
Connecting to this web site, it displays ALL of the following:
Getting https://news.ycombinator.com/
Looking up news.ycombinator.com
Making HTTPS connection to news.ycombinator.com
SSL callback:ok, preverify_ok=1, ssl_okay=0
Verified connection to news.ycombinator.com (cert=news.ycombinator.com)
Certificate issued by: /C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/CN=DigiCert TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1
Secure 256-bit TLSv1.2 (ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384) HTTP connection
HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Read 1.5 KiB of data, 5.3 KiB/sec.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
On a modern computer, all that flashes by so quickly that you never see it. On a retro computer at 300 baud, it takes FOREVER, and you have to sit through it for EVERY page.
I've tried every Lynx flag and configuration listed, and none of them actually work. I think the notification suppression feature broke, but nobody noticed it because we've grown accustomed to high speed connections.
[1] https://www.brow.sh