I don't disagree, but if you don't need the entire bag of tools, you can get by for quite some time (possibly indefinitely) using just `create-react-app` and friends. The issue with webpack is that the learning curve for going from CRA to manual tuning is incredibly steep, but what that buys you is full control over the entire build process.
I do wish there was a middle ground where you could use 90% sane defaults and customize the other 10% without taking on a huge amount of tool-specific baggage. Parcel is great for simple projects, but is not (in my very limited experience over a year ago) anywhere near customizable enough for more advanced use cases.
I do wish there was a middle ground where you could use 90% sane defaults and customize the other 10% without taking on a huge amount of tool-specific baggage. Parcel is great for simple projects, but is not (in my very limited experience over a year ago) anywhere near customizable enough for more advanced use cases.