It's specifically the frontend ecosystem. A problem caused by the numerous languages, assets, and formats that have to come together, the lack of JS standard li

It's specifically the frontend ecosystem. A problem caused by the numerous languages, assets, and formats that have to come together, the lack of JS standard library, poor module system, and the disaster of browser compatibility mixed with transpilers, polyfills. Webpack has already had zero/very-little config required by default. That's what most should use, and that's if you even need to use Webpack directly. Otherwise I recommend sticking to the major site frameworks like Next/Nuxt/Gatsby and let those do all the config wiring for you.