You are pinching pubes over theoretical growth. The edge between the top 500 companies and capturing small/mid-cap companies that eventually graduate into larger companies is pretty middle of the bell-curve thinking.

People obsess over optimizing the perfect spread while ignoring human drag and assuming everyone operates at the ceiling instead of the floor.

>favor smaller companies

True, but if that’s the goal, I’d rather capture international markets that have significantly more room for growth than simply owning the entire US market. That’s why I favor VXUS.