Smaller files are never a bad thing in themselves, but increasingly complex toolchains have a maintenance cost that people don't seem to notice. And I'm not jus

Smaller files are never a bad thing in themselves, but increasingly complex toolchains have a maintenance cost that people don't seem to notice. And I'm not just talking about making them work. I'm talking about everything, including choosing, learning, upgrading, replacing, dealing with problems people talk about here and even reading this article. I'm not sure how we got to the point where something that worked without minification on year 2000 networks no longer works without per-processing on year 2017 networks.