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Is modern web really that bad, and are those the reasons that just visiting some of the popular websites overwhelms my brand new cpu?

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Slightly exaggerated, but that sort of thing absolutely happens.

The 14,000 files is an actual measurement of the node_modules folder for the build of a static site I've seen. npm is inane.

Straw man. This is actually an EBKAC. Obviously, because I can do the same asinine thing in any language offering the ability to pull in dependencies.

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