I’ve been noticing a pattern across medium-to-large frontend teams:

• build times scaling out of control
• debugging becoming harder because of bundler magic
• deploy pipelines complicated for no real reason
• developers waiting instead of actually… developing

So I researched it deeply and wrote this article on why the bundler-first mindset might actually be killing productivity, and why many modern architectures are shifting toward runtime-driven frontends instead.

Topics I covered:

• Hidden cost of bundler-dependent architectures
• Why our build pipelines look like 200-step flowcharts
• What runtime routing / runtime module loading solves
• How big teams are avoiding redeploying entire apps for tiny changes

Curious to know what this sub thinks:
Are bundlers still worth the pain?
Or are we overdue for a runtime shift?