It was pretty clear from the beginning it wasn't necessary. It's funny how many junior developers will rant about how you must avoid shipping unnecessary code to the client all costs or you will die. Well, actually, I've been building React apps for over 10 years without any of this RSC shit and those apps made many millions of dollars, so it's actually not a problem.
We ship a multi megabyte package to our customers and preload massive amounts of data.
Nobody complains about it. In fact, they rave about how fast it is. They don’t care that the first page load is slow. Heck, they’re probably checked out between tasks anyways. But, once they’re in there, they want it to be fast.
This is entirely context dependent. Do that on a blog platform and you end up with blogspot.com infinite loading spinners.
Same. Our massive SPA app is so fast, SSR rendered and not even streaming, with great CWV scores, and -- omg -- even uses CSS-in-JS! All of this perf stuff is a f'ing lie. I'll never get over how they murdered that beautiful DX abstraction with FUD.
Yes forgot to also mention the CSS-in-JS! But these days apparently it will crawl your site to a halt and make your app unusable... funny, that