Love this. Always keep it simple, because future me is dumb. I will say though that frontend dev gets a bad rap, and the tooling is complex because the problem

Love this. Always keep it simple, because future me is dumb. I will say though that frontend dev gets a bad rap, and the tooling is complex because the problem is. UI's are incredibly stateful by nature, and you're not going to get anywhere unless you use a mature framework that lets you reason about it effectively. No, I'm not talking about using React to make a static site, but anything with a modicum of complexity gets out of hand pretty quick.