There isn't massive churn. As far as I can see, most of the JS ecosystem has been continually improving. React has been around since 2013 [0], Webpack has been

There isn't massive churn. As far as I can see, most of the JS ecosystem has been continually improving. React has been around since 2013 [0], Webpack has been around since 2014 [1], etc. If you're stuck in 2015, you're 5 years of updates and improvements behind. The author, by his own account, does not want to keep up with the evolution of the ecosystem: "I suppose with the increase of complexity in what we want to achieve on the web the stack to achieve it with has had to also increase in complexity. For me, personally, it's too much". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(JavaScript_library) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(JavaScript_library) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webpack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webpack