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It's probably not the same people making these comments, but it's funny to juxtapose "these web technologies are plenty fast, and size is no issue" and "I need 32GB ram + 4 real cores on my macbook for serious web dev".

If the whole system is dedicated to a single page, sure a few hundred KiB of minified javascript is absolutely fine. But neither the developer's system or the user's system is dedicated to a single page. It adds up. It tends to keep adding up until some significant percentage of people hit the limit where stuff is slower than makes sense, considering the AAA games I was playing on a laptop 13 years ago with literally less than 10% of what common laptops today have.

Anyway, kudos for caring about efficiency.