That may be your experience but it's not even close to mine. I've used gulp, bower, and browserify across several projects and it's never taken me more a couple

That may be your experience but it's not even close to mine. I've used gulp, bower, and browserify across several projects and it's never taken me more a couple of hours to set them up and they have saved me a ton of time. You might not like the way the tools work but that certainly doesn't mean they are poor tools.