Part of the answer is surely that the tools you’re talking about are dramatic improvements on the originals, speaking as a longtime Webpack and Jest user who no

Part of the answer is surely that the tools you’re talking about are dramatic improvements on the originals, speaking as a longtime Webpack and Jest user who now uses Vite and Vitest. Neither is Vue-specific, by the way — I use them with React. (It looks like Histoire doesn’t have a React adapter yet, but I’m sure it will soon.) It seems to me — as someone who uses these tools but has no inside knowledge of the Vue community — that this community just has a really well-developed engineering culture and is producing tools in line with that culture that are all really good and integrate well together. It’s hard to understand why you wouldn’t want that if you could get it!