[jbclements]

I think it's probably more productive to think of this in economic terms; "nonchalance toward optimization" <-> "I can write this code in an hour instead of three hours". And, from a company's perspective: "I can get this code running acceptably at 1/3 the dev cost".

[jwells89]

Surely we’ve crossed a threshold of diminishing returns on this by now though? There has to be a point where the gains in convenience/DX/speed are too tiny for the costs involved and the weight of the average app ceases to grow.