If a 30 second build can be cut to 15 seconds, for 20 engineers, assuming a conservative 10 save-file commands per workday (HMR!): this change converts ~216 eng

If a 30 second build can be cut to 15 seconds, for 20 engineers, assuming a conservative 10 save-file commands per workday (HMR!): this change converts ~216 engineer-hours per year from non-productive to potentially-productive. Given an average 40 hour work week, you could task one engineer on this change for five weeks and still come out ahead. This is the calculus. Vite isn't built for the "lone ex-C++ dev" shop. Its built for teams that can run this calculus and realize that, 80% of the time, investments in speeding up the software development lifecycle are among the highest leverage, most direct correlates to productive output a software shop can make.