I view it as more of a conceptual thing than a size issue. The 74kb is a symptom of the issue, which is that bad things can’t be deprecated because of backward compatibility.

If there is solution that removes the necessity of a 74kb package then I think we should embrace it.

I’m still fairly new to TypeScript but it’s quickly replacing Python as my daily driver for most things that aren’t back-end APIs, and Date is certainly one of those things I would love to see changed.