I feel entirely exhausted by the JavaScript ecosystem. Just for me, it takes all the fun and workmanship out of building something. I tend to spend so much time

I feel entirely exhausted by the JavaScript ecosystem. Just for me, it takes all the fun and workmanship out of building something. I tend to spend so much time on tooling that by the time I get to do anything creative, my motivation is nearly gone. I just experience the moment over and over that I just don’t want to deal with any of it. Then I wonder where the fascination and enthusiasm has gone that attracted me to and kept me in this area of technology for over 20 years. Maybe that’s my inner geezer talking or there’s some nostalgic distortion at work but building a website and a small product used to be comparatively easy. Today with the elevated expectations on functionality and the tons of tooling it quickly becomes an almost insurmountable task. Everything appears to be optimized for the large scale, where all the tooling and workflows probably help. There are just so many moving parts, all the time. I’d like to build performant web sites and products with as little JS as possible, make a good living doing it and spend time refining the foundation. But those jobs are gone. It’s all JavaScript and full-stack development positions now.