The reason I react (no pun intended haha) this way is because I have seen with my own eyes blue chip (US -- is that the right expression for "company name known

The reason I react (no pun intended haha) this way is because I have seen with my own eyes blue chip (US -- is that the right expression for "company name known quite literally the world over"?) companies doing exactly these sort of things. I have seen the plastering of webpacked-gulpified-obfuscated-minified-hoistpropified-younamedifiedit mind-blowing amounts of Javascript to create the latest "cool" app. I have seen web pages best described as "this webpage is so heavy not even light can escape it". The (not full) cast, not in order of appearance: . 5MB+ of Javascript (not kidding) -- _after_ the above . gazillions of HTTP requests . internal data bled through to the outside world (not always problematic from a security point of view, but one may as well: 1) save on the bytes 2) not give malicious ideas to you-know-who) . code coverage is inversely proportional: with grand score hovering around 3-5%..... End result: . from inside: a bloated over-engineered chaos (see entry: "Big Ball of Mud") . from outside: catastrophic load times of around 35 seconds w/o a primed cache. Talk about the latest shiny new "single page application"..... Granted, it's not always like that! :)