Stakeholders only care about performance or optimization when it comes down to things impacting sales/customer perception. For the most part, the goal is to ad

Stakeholders only care about performance or optimization when it comes down to things impacting sales/customer perception. For the most part, the goal is to add features. Some orgs will pad time for refactoring. Others may take dedicated time for developer driven initiatives. It really all depends. When on dialup, even a few hundred K of a web page/site mattered. On a lan, it mattered a lot less and the modern internet is closer to a LAN 20+ years ago in terms of performance. We have computers in our pockets faster than desktops at the time. I had 64mb of ram in 1997, today I have 128GB. We fill the gaps as technology expands and will generally look into issues as it's necessary to support new platforms (arm, risc-v) or simply because it's too big.