To me, these articles are like arguing that your should use Assembly over C or C over something like Ruby. Sure there are cases where lower level makes sense, b

To me, these articles are like arguing that your should use Assembly over C or C over something like Ruby. Sure there are cases where lower level makes sense, but the vast majority of modern web development has no need to be at a low level. I much prefer using Lodash because it's reliable and well documented. Everyone on my team knows what it does, knows where to find the documentation, knows where to find the examples, and knows where to find documentation of edge cases. Lodash also includes some wonderful shortcuts and edge case handling. Seriously, the best part of lodash isn't the code. It's how freaking easy it is to understand and use. If you want to replace lodash, you need to look at everything the package entails - not just the actual lines of code.