Hey DEV community! 👋 After auditing dozens of enterprise platforms, I’ve noticed a dangerous trend. We talk a lot about JS bloat ruining Core Web Vitals, but there's a much darker side to heavy payloads in 2026. Web performance is no longer a vanity metric. As we prepare for the full enforcement of strict data protection frameworks—like Europe's GDPR and Paraguay's upcoming Law 7593/2025—the efficiency of your software is a matter of operational sovereignty and legal compliance. If your platform dispatches megabytes of useless JavaScript, you aren't just frustrating users on 4G networks; you are hiding attack surfaces and monitoring risks that expose your company to massive fines. The TL;DR Excessive JS increases the surface area where unaudited third-party integrations can hide. Latency in rural areas halts B2B logistics and burns money in downtime. 'Vibe Coding' (unsupervised AI generation) is inflating technical debt to unsustainable levels.…