Spot on. Definitely not any more of a premature optimization than usability, since SEO is usability for bots. So unless you really do not care about the crawl

Spot on. Definitely not any more of a premature optimization than usability, since SEO is usability for bots. So unless you really do not care about the crawlability and understandability of your site/app, you should be optimizing for bots in parallel with human usability.