> When the internet came through a modem and bandwidth was very expensive, That effectively ended in the mid 00s. Otherwise we wouldn't have had services like

> When the internet came through a modem and bandwidth was very expensive, That effectively ended in the mid 00s. Otherwise we wouldn't have had services like YouTube. Between those times and around 2012 there was an explosion of script bloat because back then it was more important to have an interactive page than a fast page. Bandwidth resurfaced as a concern only with the proliferation of mobile devices. The whole premise of tree shaking, introduced in 2012 was to reduce bloat.