Up until recently I would not have agreed with you. However, recently I've skipped on Gulp and Grunt and it has helped me with various things: * Saves me time

Up until recently I would not have agreed with you. However, recently I've skipped on Gulp and Grunt and it has helped me with various things: * Saves me time so I don't need to figure out why a Gulp/Grunt script is behaving erratically, such as a watch that crashes even though exceptions are being caught for it * Reduces my development depenencies, which helps with the following two things: * There's less of a chance that there will be a package that needs to be built that will crash and burn on Windows * I don't need to download a shit ton of stuff from NPM every time I clone from Git * Helps me think about my architecture critically as I don't want to do anything too complicated outside of Gulp/Grunt * I don't need to wait for someone to make a plugin for a test runner