@jonathanhogg @dasgrueneblatt This sums up a lot of my eternal grumbles about "modern software engineering", of which the Javascript "ecosystem" is probably the clearest example.

We have free (speech and beer) browsers with all sorts of built-in APIs that allow anyone with a computer made in the last 15 years to build cool things with nothing more than a text editor.

We have spent those 15 years telling people to use `create-react-app` instead.