Again, to an extent. If the site is simple enough to do it in Sinatra without too many dependencies, etc., then yes, it would _at least_ postpone performance op

Again, to an extent. If the site is simple enough to do it in Sinatra without too many dependencies, etc., then yes, it would _at least_ postpone performance optimizations. My understanding is, however, that if the site is already simple, you may wind up not needing to do these improvements in Sinatra.