And your mentality makes me want to do the same. Computers are hard as-is. Taking what could be a simple task and adding a bunch of extra unnecessary choices be

And your mentality makes me want to do the same. Computers are hard as-is. Taking what could be a simple task and adding a bunch of extra unnecessary choices before I even have any context for understanding what those choices affect makes my life measurably harder. Worse, when other projects take this same approach the complexity isn't merely additive — it's exponential. This is why yak shaving is a thing we had to name. In isolation none of these things is hard or even a big ask. In combination, you end up diving into how PATH is set in your shell because you added npm's bin dir to it but you've actually added the wrong one because you didn't realize you accidentally installed it through both curlpipe and homebrew and (add ten more steps of complications here) just to tinker around with a freaking static HTML template.