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Finally...had to go so many comments down to find someone making a logical point. People will complain about anything. As someone who has made a massive app with React, well over 1000 components, people literally complain about a 43kb gripped file size... Most likely none of these people have built a large application with React and use it for stuff that a static site would be good for. Then they complain about loading time and rendering time... Also, on an app people ACTUALLY use and often...the files are cached anyway. The front/web/JS doesn't have a fatigue problem...it has a chronic bitching for no reason problem. Reacts benefits from a declarative api and such far out weigh file size...the people who complain about file size don't understand that and never will...again...probably because they haven't written anything used in production by real users ever. /rant


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