It seems to me that this website could be a completely static site that is automatically regenerated once a day with a new graph. Instead you seem to be succumbing to the exact same problem you are highlighting. This a good example of how the culture of software engineering is moving in the wrong direction. We need to all make a stand and say no more to this culture.
Of course, that’s made difficult by the fact it’s against our own collective interest. At this rate even the worst developers will be able to be employed managing some gargantuan and wholly unnecessary software stock.
Not to knock on you to much, but this culture of bloat reminds about the classic “Evolution of a Programmer” joke:
It took more time for me to read your complaint about "bloat" than it took to load the site, read it all, and come to the comments. This type of elitist posturing is more corrosive to my enjoyment of this profession than any poorly optimized website.
Unfortunately the culture I’ve experienced in the past few years has been essentially that, but for anything that does not use a common npm library. “Why is this not done with React/Vue/Typescript/Angular/<insert favorite thing here>?” is a question that’s posed less as a question and more as a condescension in many cases. The rebuttal “because not using XYZ works just fine” is not often accepted, true as it may be, followed by bashing the non believer in question into submission.
I’m with you though, I don’t think the bashing is necessary, in either direction. It just breeds contempt.
Of course, that’s made difficult by the fact it’s against our own collective interest. At this rate even the worst developers will be able to be employed managing some gargantuan and wholly unnecessary software stock.
Not to knock on you to much, but this culture of bloat reminds about the classic “Evolution of a Programmer” joke:
https://www.smart-jokes.org/programmer-evolution.html
Let’s all try and be like the Guru Hacker, not the Seasoned Professional!