it does not take much complexity to start feeling the pain of jquery-style imperative DOM sync & manip. you don't need to go too far past "simple blog" for this to become obvious.
FWIW, the linked site is built with a 300 line custom build script, Rollup, Buble & Terser - even the dev dependencies are extremely minimal. no, it doesnt have the latest HMR hotness, so the DX could be a bit better if i wanted more bloat.
This kind of progressive enhancement but with the latest JS frontend component models is where Vue shines. Vue 3.0 will be making it even better and faster.
