I don't think that's true at all... D3 is already a higher level abstraction to raw SVG+JS. It's fine for large scale things, as long as those things are actual

I don't think that's true at all... D3 is already a higher level abstraction to raw SVG+JS. It's fine for large scale things, as long as those things are actually the kind of things that make sense to implement with D3 and you know what you're doing.