Things change. Web development has a lot of incidental complexity that these tools help manage. Eventually tools are overcome by the complexity. Parcel in part

Things change. Web development has a lot of incidental complexity that these tools help manage. Eventually tools are overcome by the complexity. Parcel in particular is a clever wrapper on top of several other tools, so I’m sure when their dependencies break they pay the price. I think some of them are also victims of their own success. Lots of these tools have a happy path, but then they gain more and more users who want various exceptions to the happy path.