A lot of that goes away if you avoid Javascript/Node as your first ecosystem. The unnecessary complexity and cargo-culting there is off the charts. It's overwhe

A lot of that goes away if you avoid Javascript/Node as your first ecosystem. The unnecessary complexity and cargo-culting there is off the charts. It's overwhelming even for the experienced engineers. I got so jaded dealing with this JS nonsense just to get a simple front-end going for my pet project that I just said "screw it" and started using straight up ES6 in the browser. No libraries, no transpilers, no minifiers.