At two places I’ve worked, we had performance issues with webpack where builds would take tens of minutes. Every frontend guru would come in with their “oh, it’

At two places I’ve worked, we had performance issues with webpack where builds would take tens of minutes. Every frontend guru would come in with their “oh, it’s probably X”, spend half a day debugging, and then give up. Moreover, webpack does all sorts of things I don’t care about: support for a dozen different module systems, javascript versions, polyfills, scss, JSX, etc etc. I just want to issue a few requests and update the DOM. I guess I’m spoiled by Go and Rust where I can basically just throw a list of dependencies at the build tool and it spits out an executable (almost immediately in the case of go).