It's not insane at all. Any binary that gets packed with the entire runtime will be in MBs. But that's the point, the end user downloads a standalone fragment and doesn't need to give a flying fuck about what kind of garbage has to be preinstalled for the damn binary to work. You think people care if a binary is 5MB or 50MB in 2025? It's more insane that you think it's insane than it is actually insane. Reminds me of all the Membros and Perfbros crying about Electron apps and meanwhile these things going brrrrrrr with 100MB+ binaries and 1GB+ eaten memory on untold millions of average computers
The fact that it’s normalized to use obscene amounts of memory for tiny apps should not be celebrated.
I assure you, at scale this belief makes infra fall apart, and I’ve seen it happen so, so many times. Web devs who have never thought about performance merrily chuck huge JSON blobs or serialized app models into the DB, keep clicking scale up when it gets awful, and then when that finally doesn’t work, someone who _does_ care gets hired to fix it. Except that person or team now has to not only fix years of accumulated cruft, but also has to change a deeply embedded culture, and fight for dev time against Product.