> it's by no means the necessary outcome of using "ridiculous libraries and frameworks," and not even a particularly common one
The real world disagrees with you; go check out any major website and observe as your laptop's fans spin up.
However I think the main problem here isn't the symptom (websites are bloated) but the root cause of the problem. I'm not sure if it's resume-driven-development by front-end developers or that they genuinely lost the skill of pure CSS & HTML but everyone seems to be pushing for React or some kind of SPA framework even when the entire website only needs a handful of pages with no dynamic content.
Re:Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @01:34PM
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> one or two poorly-optimized sites
Try every old media site and most e-commerce.
"Most outrageous and absurd language ever," "Megabytes of javascript", "corporate-grade bandwidth", "8th-gen i7 and 8GB of memory" to open "3 images and a contact form."
I'm sure you can find one or two poorly-optimized sites that have 2MB of javascript to download, but it's by no means the necessary outcome of using "ridiculous libraries and frameworks," and not even a particularly common one.