alt Hacker NewsI tried it, about 20Y ago.
It does but not all that much.
I had a Classic II, so a very limited machine.
Not a "road apple" but a "compromised Mac":
https://lowendmac.com/1991/mac-classic-ii/
68030 on a 16-bit bus, max 10MB RAM, no expansion slots so nothing except SCSI.
So, I put 10MB in it, a bigger SCSI HDD, a SCSI Ethernet adaptor on the back, and built both OSes up from scratch.
MacOS 6.0.8 with all the extras: a menu bar clock, hierarchical Apple menu with modular Control Panel, MacTCP, etc.
And MacOS 7.6.1, which doesn't officially support the Classic II as it wants 12MB RAM minimum -- but I had RAMdoubler. OpenTalk, Netscape Navigator 3, Communicator 4, some early Internet Explorer, etc.
Honestly, there was little difference. It was usably quick on 7.6.1 and more stable. So many things that are extras on 6.0.8 are built in to 7.x that it doesn't need that much more disk or memory.
7.x did more, made it easier, and ran well.
But, as an example, on roughly 1MBs ADSL, it took about half an hour to render the top-left quarter of https://slashdot.org/.
Perfectly usable machine, could do email, FTP, Gopher, but forget it on the WWW on of the noughties (2000-2009).
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Get a gopher client and join gopher://hngopher.com (r/o HN over gopher), gopher://magical.fish (huge portal, from a translator from text adventures over gopher, and even current news) and gopher://sdf.org. (blogs).
Gopher://typed-hole.org it's fine too.
Well the parent commenter said "SE era machines". That era of machines (Plus, SE, Classic) had an 8 MHz 68000 and only supported up to 4 MB of RAM. The Low End Mac page you linked says that your Classic II is 1.8x faster than an SE. On the 68000 Macs, System 7 (especially 7.1 and 7.5) feels a lot more sluggish than System 6, and will use over half the RAM just running the OS with no applications. Being able to skip the "extras" you mention that became mandatory on System 7 is useful when you have a slow machine with limited RAM. Of course I'm not sure what any of this has to do with running the OS on a Raspberry Pi.