> “Directly” is immaterial if every part of the tool chain supports it transparently. Which granted isn’t a given In other words, it's not immaterial (and even

> “Directly” is immaterial if every part of the tool chain supports it transparently. Which granted isn’t a given In other words, it's not immaterial (and even hinting that it might be by introducing the word in the first place is a red herring). > it takes approximately none to minify JS Simply untrue. > And for an even meager payload on the wire, I know my users on spotty networks or low power devices aren’t just theoretically benefiting. There are two issues here, both of which come down to the fact that the practice of minification doesn't exist in a vacuum: 1. HTTP payload compression is already a thing 2. There's a counterintuitive product of the industry that churns out minified JS bundles, which is that if you look at what people are actually doing, pretty much all these things end up being larger--this is approximately the same as the "low-fat/low-calorie snacks lead to overeating" phenomenon, but there's a fair bit of "lost knowledge/nobody knows how to do this stuff anymore" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko> involved, too