In my experience, this kind of minimalism is great on paper, but in practice if you throw out at least some of that complexity, you also have to rewrite so many

In my experience, this kind of minimalism is great on paper, but in practice if you throw out at least some of that complexity, you also have to rewrite so many things yourself. Sometimes that's a good thing but some features are too complex to get right every time and it's worth reusing a good quality version of them, which unfortunately sometimes requires using a bunch of questionably designed build/dev tools.