Web applications aren't going to get bigger just by themselves! /s Jokes aside, this extreme optimization for development does have impacts on user experience.

Web applications aren't going to get bigger just by themselves! /s Jokes aside, this extreme optimization for development does have impacts on user experience. The amount of bandwidth/storage etc used by a "just ship the whole db" type applications would surely suck for most people outside of the 'I measure my bandwidth in Gbps' crowd?