will the Python ecosystem feel the need to "tree shake" its way to small bundle sizes? Its easy to eliminate tk and turtle graphics, but if a project uses foo.bar.x its hard to determine if rest of foo can be eliminated. JS kinda solved that problem.

50k for the 1mb challenge. The rest is to build out the tooling. It looks like they want to run existing ML python libs from within the NEAR blockchain environment.

Wondering why they don't separate concerns here.

now that's a weissman score