Well, for me it was the opposite. Trying vanilla js was empowering! There was no; tool chain, bundling, virtual DOM, render function, countless layers of libra

Well, for me it was the opposite. Trying vanilla js was empowering! There was no; tool chain, bundling, virtual DOM, render function, countless layers of library abstraction, sourcemaps, node_modules... etc. Just a simple index.html file Some projects don't require a state of the art virtual-DOM-diffing-machine, just to display a list of ToDo items...