The Checkout UI Components JSON is ridiculously large and also quite big

[adragus-inviqa]

https://gist.github.com/adragus-inviqa/8c2496312760c122aefb390c66bf2419 (<-- your browser might crash opening this 💥 ).
That's a one liner copied from a response source and pretty-printed into 45587 lines.

I hope you agree that those countries desperately need a single global object.

[antonkril]

Agree. And we have it in backlog (MAGETWO-40098). This ticket will influence the priority of the story.

[piotrekkaminski]

Thank you for your submission.

We recently made some changes to the way we process GitHub submissions to more quickly identify and respond to core code issues.

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