It highly depends on use case. If I have web application running on 100 nodes 5mb vs even 10mb has such a minuscule cost that it not even worth calculating. Now

It highly depends on use case. If I have web application running on 100 nodes 5mb vs even 10mb has such a minuscule cost that it not even worth calculating. Now benefits for ops from just having to push a single static binary without external dependencies are fairly decent.