@jautero This reminds me that the Sun isn't very hot, there's just lots of it[1] :)
I think this is a reasonable stance. What I do find unreasonable are design choices that (sorry, example again) make people shovel down megabytes of code into a client-side VM to display black on white text. I don't think this would cross anyones mind 20y ago, and not only because perf constraints. But our thinking changed at some point.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tu0mIpX8nU