I built a 1.7kb VDOM-less framework, it went "viral", and Reddit banned me 🤣

Have you ever spent days crafting an open-source project, finally launched it, watched it get 20K views in just a few hours... and then had a robot permanently ban your account? Well, that was my Tuesday. I recently open-sourced Sigwork, a 1.7kb fine-grained reactive frontend framework. The launch on r/javascript exploded so fast that Reddit's automated spam filters panicked, assumed I was a bot farm, and shadowbanned my brand-new account. (I appealed, and thankfully, a human moderator unbanned me 🙌). But the wild launch day isn't the point of this article. The real story is why I built a fully functional VDOM-less framework under 2kb. The Problem: Frontend Bloat Nowadays, web development has become incredibly complex. We have multiple build steps and massive frameworks packed with features we might never even use. It’s not uncommon to add React and a few libraries to a project and suddenly be pushing hundreds kbs of JavaScript to the client. Why did we normalize this? Is it really ne