Have you ever tried to load a development build of a project with 3000 modules in Vite? It’s like a webpack build all over again every time you load the page.
I didn't have much of any trouble in Snowpack with even the largest projects I worked on but at least with Snowpack it was easy enough to target "freeze" a sub-tree of modules into Snowpack's "web_modules" with esbuild. I don't know about Vite in that case as I haven't been convinced to actually try Vite despite Snowpack's shutdown endorsement. Recent stuff for me has either been projects still using webpack for platform reasons or ESM with hand-targeted esbuild bundles for specific module trees (libraries) without using Vite or Snowpack above that. About the only thing I feel I'm missing in those esbuild workflows is a good HMR dev server but the simplicity of using fewer, more targeted tools feels handy to me.
