> This is like saying that backend's gone crazy because people are loading MBs of frameworks just to print "Hello World" on the screen. They are not equivalent

> This is like saying that backend's gone crazy because people are loading MBs of frameworks just to print "Hello World" on the screen. They are not equivalent at all, you can add as much bloat as you want on your backend as long as you scale it. The cost is put on you. Front-end bloat directly affects the user. We used to justify every library addition, now people just add a library for every trivial task to make it slightly "nicer" as if that matters at all.