[mercer]

It's definitely hyperbole, but the point still stands. Back when I used Gulp, I've run into quite a few situations where a particular package I wanted to use didn't support Gulp, but did have CLI support. And even if both were supported, adding a line to package.json was faster and simpler than using the gulp approach.

That said, I have nothing against Gulp and it's quite possible I might use it in the future. For example, the approach of using npm scripts can be problematic if you need to work on different operating systems. And I'm sure there are plenty of cases where the complexity is best managed with Gulp or its ilk.