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"A decent hedge-fund strategy would be to run a private WPT instance and track JS bloat and TTI for commercial-intent sites — and then short firms that regress because they just spend 3-8 quarters rewriting everything in The One True Framework."

For a post that weighs so heavily on the need for evidence, this claim doesn't have any. There have to be cases where bloat has a material impact on a company's finances, but how frequent are they?

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Author of the article here; you'd be truly shocked.

I have carefully considered this comment, and decided that it's not evidence.

Now, you're working at Google, and it's definitely possible you're privy to great evidence that you're not sharing. But saying "you'd be truly shocked" is still not really good evidence.

I know there were the Amazon studies where there's a tight link between latency sales. I don't dispute that latency matters. I personally love websites that load fast, have no JS on my personal site and no more than 20 rules. I just haven't seen actual up to date reasons to believe that modern web development is hurting the bottom line for most businesses.

The entire post is premised on frustration in my ability to share what I know in order to avoid punching down. That I can't share specifics is the whole reasonto try another tack.