[cornstalks]

I think part of the pushback you're getting here is that you're contesting "WebAssembly is almost always faster than JavaScript" (which IMO is correct and appropriately couched) with "WASM + JS can be slower than just JS" (which is also correct), but the way you're communicating it comes across as "WASM is just slower than JS" (that's obviously not literally what you're saying, but that's how it's coming across).

If we're going to be pedantic and nit-picky about claims, please use more precise counterclaims. It only takes a few extra words to clearly state you're talking about WASM + JS, which is an important distinction since many† people here are interested in WASM-only, without the JS (with the alternative in their mind being JS-only, without the WASM).

†In the spirit of pedantry, I mean many. Not all. Maybe not even a majority. But reasonably many.