> Modern backends and frontends can surely handle way more than 20 entries in a dropdown without sweating. I agree. I meant that I as a user will not find it u

> Modern backends and frontends can surely handle way more than 20 entries in a dropdown without sweating. I agree. I meant that I as a user will not find it usable enough if I often have to search the correct value in lists of 20 or more. The discussion of the load on the frontend and backend was about amounts large enough to create problems if the developer wrote naive code, but we did not get in to a specific amount.