While I have nothing but empathy for our very-much shared pain, I have to insist that adding multiple layers of abstraction between a template and what the user

While I have nothing but empathy for our very-much shared pain, I have to insist that adding multiple layers of abstraction between a template and what the user sees in the browser + a maze of client/server sync flows + hyperactive ecosystem churn + webpack/babel + 750k npm packages because there's no stdlib = not a good start to finding a simpler A->B.