True and I agree with you, fast deploys are one of the most massively underlooked productivity-sinks. Minification tends to be the slowest step in a frontend pipeline (at least in my experience) but it's closer to a two minute step with Google Closure Compiler on a small-size codebase (+20K LoC) than 30 minutes, and the size difference is more important (for us) than the difference between seconds when deploying.