> And then people go "but you can use ESM in browsers without a build step!", apparently not realizing that that is an utterly useless feature because loading a full dependency tree over the network would be unreasonably and unavoidably slow - you'd need as many roundtrips as there are levels of depth in your dependency tree - and so you need some kind of build step anyway, eliminating this entire supposed benefit.

Not true, I have developed 3 systems with plain ESMs loading them in the browser with no build step (> 100K lines of code for each project, too many modules to count :)

Update: I bundle for release