> Just like the obtuse clusterf%%% that is modern front end development doesn’t seem to be hurting the adoption by the $cool_kids. This is true, and it may eve

> Just like the obtuse clusterf%%% that is modern front end development doesn’t seem to be hurting the adoption by the $cool_kids. This is true, and it may even help with adoption among "cool kids." But the adoption could be much, much higher if it weren't such a clusterf%%%. There is an almost infinite amount of marketshare from a wide spectrum of technologies ranging from Wordpress down to "vanilla jquery" that could be eaten into. Again, you can't look at some successful thing S lacking quality X and conclude "quality X doesn't matter." You have to compare "S with X" to "S without X". Sometimes a direct experiment is possible, sometimes not.