rioc0719

You cannot simultaneously increase the percentage of donations going to directly paying "just developers" while decreasing the percentage going to admin costs. Who will be responsible for implementing this ring-fencing of donations, if not precisely the non-developers you'd like them to spend less on?

I agree with you, but they weren't saying that JS is unique for having dead-code elimination, but rather for having to be served over a network connection nearly every time it's needed (not accounting for caching and offline apps, etc), which presents an entirely new set of problems that webpack and others attempt to solve.