I feel like this is needless nitpicking. Some of us may have grown up with PHP, DHTML, actual XML HTTP requests, and so forth. I guarantee that there is a major

I feel like this is needless nitpicking. Some of us may have grown up with PHP, DHTML, actual XML HTTP requests, and so forth. I guarantee that there is a major crowd, even on HN, who have not had this experience and who think that webpack etc. are required. You are not the audience for this post.