A few weeks ago I wanted to modernize my JS stack after being out of the web development scene for a while, as part of learning other programming languages and

A few weeks ago I wanted to modernize my JS stack after being out of the web development scene for a while, as part of learning other programming languages and the likes. I was dumbfounded at the amount of overengineering, INSANELY complex build tools, and incredible amount of tools you have to use now to simply do what JS kids call a "proper" hello world. What exactly are JavaScript developers trying to demonstrate? That they are capable of overengineering the simplest thing? (ahem leftpad?) It's getting absolutely ridiculous. And then if you complain to them about how something is kind of ridiculous, you are evil, a bad programmer, and should go burn in the pits of npm. There is also a culture for rewrite the world in JS because JS is the one and only blessed language. I'm getting inspired for a blog post now...