If you think it's bad then why do you use it? Browsers still support just HTML. You can shove a just a script tag down in the page. Eventually, you'll have eno

If you think it's bad then why do you use it? Browsers still support just HTML. You can shove a just a script tag down in the page. Eventually, you'll have enough devs working on this you'll start to run into issues with how you coordinate your work. Your site becomes large enough the code gets more complicated and needs organising to work on it without slowing you down. You'll start to reinvent the above tools to solve these problems. Frontend/JS tooling isn't perfect, but don't pretend like other languages/systems (can) have a complex pipeline of build tooling.