Let's start with all the trade-offs I can come up with.
We are building small (~2K Java classes) to medium (~6K) enterprise systems on regular basis using GWT since version 1.3 was out. I understand that there is a different set of problems to solve in public site having thousand clicks per second, but I will try to tell about our biggest problems in GWT 1. X and how GWT 2.0 approaches that.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.