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Plus how many people even get promoted for painstakingly removing JavaScript that wasn’t needed in the first place?

• evmar 5y ago
  As a person who enjoys doing this kind of cleanups, it is disappointing. But when I think of the larger business perspective, these kinds of cleanups are difficult to justify, in that the value of them is hard to quantify. Overall the net effect is a kind of death by a million cuts, but each of these cuts individually is a decent amount of work to clean up and fix that doesn't itself move any needles. My latest perspective on this is that the only renewing force is the also the one found in nature, which is that you occasionally need to burn the whole forest down or have the organism die, so that you can start again afresh. In a business setting this means using a new stack in a new app.