Definitely, this is also why it's important that Angular is making strides towards reducing the total download size. This is, in fact, exactly what is happening

Definitely, this is also why it's important that Angular is making strides towards reducing the total download size. This is, in fact, exactly what is happening with this release (and it will only improve when Ivy is released). This does not mean the frontend community should continually be bending over backwards reinventing wheels just so the claim can be made that a certain package is now "only 1.6k GZipped!", imho.