[austin-cheney]

It’s not about right or wrong. It’s about the numbers. You are either faster or not. People that are easily offended really want it to be all about right or wrong. The only reason I can think of abandoning or discarding evidence is emotion. Whether that is right or wrong I don’t care.

[johnfn]

The success of an organization is very rarely dependent solely on website performance. Speed is just one dimension in a vast and multi-dimensional optimization space. Spending time improving performance means you are necessarily not spending time improving one of those other vectors. It is a question of priorities - and suggesting that others who say that other priorities are more important are "emotional" is failing to grapple with that reality.

I don't doubt you have been correct to say performance can be improved. Performance always can be improved. It just likely doesn't matter.

[austin-cheney]

Yes. Everything else matters too, but that is still not an excuse to throw away evidence.

If you don’t want to be faster it’s okay.

[johnfn]

I am not throwing away evidence. I am saying "You are correct that removing React would make most websites faster. It would also be a strategy that few places should pursue."