[techdragon]

Yeah... until the mountain of poorly documented plugins built on Webpack causes it to collapse just as Grunt, and Gulp did before it.

The first time I used Webpack... I wanted to punch someone so badly... their documentation for the Webpack plugin they wrote didnt mention that it would also turn all my SCSS/CSS into JavaScript. Imagine the disaster that was. This is the experience I have over and over again. I expect a 'plugin' to plug into things without requiring me to read every line of the plugin's source code... if I have to do that I may as well write my own tool. Community displeasure builds until someone writes a new tool and we get yet another mass exodus to that tool in the hope it will be better. It seems to be about 18 months to 1 year.

I suspect the entire JavaScript ecosystem is suffering from an effect similar to Dunbar's Number, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

There becomes 'too many libraries' and after a certain point, the tower collapses again to a smaller pool of new dependencies because we cannot without much "fighting the tide" maintain a mental model with the level of complexity necessary to keep all these dependencies in our heads while working.