I think the biggest benefit of these benchmarks has been to trigger improvements to all the low-hanging fruit in various frameworks. The differences at the high

I think the biggest benefit of these benchmarks has been to trigger improvements to all the low-hanging fruit in various frameworks. The differences at the high end don't really matter for many people, but I find it quite comforting if a framework is fast enough that I won't run into any performance issues I didn't cause myself. Because those I can fix, but if I hit a bottleneck in the framework it gets so much harder to figure out a way around it.