The same kind of rant applies to things like automake, but only Javascript has this incredibly high rate of churn. Possibly it's easier to build a new toolchain than to understand someone's existing one.
That's been my annoyance too. Instead of iterating on what's there everyone makes their own thing and tries to reinvent build tools, frameworks, web components, module loaders, transpilers, package mangers etc... It is improving somewhat. Some tools seem to be winning out and clearing the orbit around them but were still in the primeval js solar system with a few planets forming.