This strikes me as overblown piling on. The website seems to be working reasonably well now that the surge has died down a bit. I imagine that the website launc

This strikes me as overblown piling on. The website seems to be working reasonably well now that the surge has died down a bit. I imagine that the website launched much more quickly than it would have if the developers had not used a bunch of javascript libraries. Now that the initial surge is over, the site likely will never see that kind of traffic again, and so the shortcut of using those libraries strikes me as a reasonable tradeoff. I'm sure their going through the process of pruning the unused code and adding caching. I don't really see what all the fuss is about. Also, anyone who launches to that kind of traffic is bound to have some launch day issues no matter how well they've designed the site.