I agree with you but it might be due to my own ignorance. I've done react, vue, and old school jquery and miss the days when javascript was just something you

I agree with you but it might be due to my own ignorance. I've done react, vue, and old school jquery and miss the days when javascript was just something you had a script tag for in your website. "Building" js projects and all of the other weird ... garbage ... that gets thrown in is just totally frustrating. The best I have been able to manage is to use esbuild + react + typescript in a very conservative fashion to keep things manageable for someone like my self: has a life and doesn't want that life to be consumed by yet-another-new-node-js-build-this-perpetually-differently-and-forever-and-with-much-pain system.