I understand why you are curious, because I too often feel encumbered by the complexity of frontend development. I came to conclusion that I can't do much about

I understand why you are curious, because I too often feel encumbered by the complexity of frontend development. I came to conclusion that I can't do much about fighting off the tooling since I have already bought into those. But I can reduce complexity in other ways like reducing dependencies and instead building simple things in-house.