Trying to get an average new developer up to speed in a modern JS environment is ridiculously hard. There are so many things that only exist due to historical

Trying to get an average new developer up to speed in a modern JS environment is ridiculously hard. There are so many things that only exist due to historical accident. It's basically a big ball of mud, where being a swamp guide is more important than being an engineer. http://laputan.org/mud/ http://laputan.org/mud/ As a big ball of mud, it will be really hard to replace. There's too much value in being a swamp guide, so the swamp guides will resist anything that will take away from their status.