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It probably is if you have to deal with > 25k LOC code base like what Angular has.

Well, there's their problem...

Edit:

Ok, for the down voters. Angular is HUGE. And all that code has to get shoved onto the client side when someone visits a page. And that's JUST for the framework. We aren't even talking about the application code yet. More and more clients are mobile. Nobody sees a problem here? You're using more (precious) data, it's slower to load and slower to run. It's just a nasty little trend going on.

NOW LET'S SEE SOME FREAKING DOWN VOTING!!!

Only if you have caching disabled. If you use a CDN, the library is likely already on the users computer. That said their 25k loc code base is 123kb (45kb gzipped)

I find a common theme among the people who freak out about 45-100kb of js are often the people with 3MB of images on their page.

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