I think you identify a lot of the causes of page bloat here, but I'm not convinced developers are blameless. Things we do: - Load all if jQuery when we just

I think you identify a lot of the causes of page bloat here, but I'm not convinced developers are blameless. Things we do: - Load all if jQuery when we just need a few functions - Load all of Bootstrap when we just need a grid system - Load a whole templating library for one little widget ("we'll need more later") - Load a whole icon don't when we're only using two of them - Load a whiz bang carousel library when we only need to roatate a few images - Use prefab themes that do all of these things and more (shudder, *parallax*) with the idea of providing nontechnical users with the ability to do anything they can imagine without learning to code a little bit I don't think this is all incompetence (though plenty of it certainly is). Some of it is just needing to get shit out the door before the deadline, and some of it is attempting to plan ahead (eventually we're going to use more of jQuery, right?). Likewise with your examples - I don't think this is always micromanaging, sometimes it's just resource management. If you don't have the developers to manage an email server, why not pay a little money to a third party and let them manage it?