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I'm fine with that, but keeping some consideration to optimization should still be something, even in environments when constraints are low. The problem is when no-one cares and includes 4 versions of jquery in their app so that they don't have to do const $=document.getElementById, everything grows to weigh 1Gb, use 1Gb of ram and 10% of your CPU, and your system is as sluggish nowadays (or even more) than it was 10y ago, with 10x the ram and processing power.

> so that they don't have to do const $=document.getElementById,

``` const window.$ = (q)=>document.querySelector(q); ``` Emulates the behavior much better. This is already set on modern version of browsers[1]

[1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/web_co...

It is set, but only in the developer console, not for JavaScript included with the website/app.

It's not even true that HTML/JS is easier than something like, say, WPF.

Claude is pretty bad at coding UIs.