Extra memory and performance is invariably passed down to people who will come up with lovely bloat to fill the void :-)
I find it quite horrifying in many ways to see how much resources are used for so very little in terms of user benefits. Not just 'UI' per se, but just general functionality.
And the 'reasons' are always the same too, 'it is more maintainable' (read: it is not, in 2 weeks time the new version of your stack will break your 'code'.), 'it is easier to read for a newcomer' (read: no, not at all, it is just this week's fancypants trend), 'it is more secure' (read: just because we don't actually KNOW what it's doing, and rely on hopefully someone else for it) etc etc.
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Extra memory and performance is invariably passed down to people who will come up with lovely bloat to fill the void :-)
I find it quite horrifying in many ways to see how much resources are used for so very little in terms of user benefits. Not just 'UI' per se, but just general functionality.
And the 'reasons' are always the same too, 'it is more maintainable' (read: it is not, in 2 weeks time the new version of your stack will break your 'code'.), 'it is easier to read for a newcomer' (read: no, not at all, it is just this week's fancypants trend), 'it is more secure' (read: just because we don't actually KNOW what it's doing, and rely on hopefully someone else for it) etc etc.
The real reason is always the same: it's cheaper. That's just the way it goes.