[brianvan5155]

So, in essence, just suck it up.

The funny thing is that JavaScript development isn't a goal. It's never the goal. Complex toolsets sometimes assist in the achievement of goals... but you can't say "JavaScript overload is totally the right thing" when you aren't talking about the goals that need to be met. Simply having a philosophy that developers should learn new things all the time to stay current... that's not a good argument to support the current tooling.

I'm glad there's a lot of people working on open source projects. I wish they'd publish more documentation about use cases and UNIFIED (not piecemeal) deployment configurations, though. After all, your toolset has valid and relevant use cases... right?!?!