This is a blithe statement - the browser isn't downloaded whenever a user navigates to the page. 1/6th of a MB for a page this simple is pretty substantial.

Do you download the browser on every request?

Of course 168kB is still nothing but your comparison is flawed.

Don’t give web developers any ideas.

hyperscript is ~22k gziped and cached after the first request

the size is not an issue

now, the runtime on the other hand...

wait is this not being compiled to js?