> Shipping tens of megabytes per web page is impolite, if not outright disrespectful to users.

You're being generous with what I would consider negligence.

"If our users can't afford the bits, we don't need them!"

They don't know what a megabyte is

You're not a good and modern engineer who knows his craft if you aren't defaulting to react and tailwind.

And don't dare to contradict me, the fact that MIT-bred leetcode ninjas paid half a million per year can't produce a simple (mostly static) website on that stack it's only because of management that wants to ship the next product. /s