[qwertyuiop924]

I disagree. A lot of technical design goes into JS projects. React is designed in a Herculean effort to minimize DOM refresh and thrashing. JQuery was built to fix very real problems: API incompatability between browsers, and extreme verbosity in common idioms. Babel is a compiler, with all that entails.

[monknomo]

The users of these libraries benefit from this herculean effort of very real programming, but are mostly not the herculean programmers.

The users are the community, not the library creators. And the users are mostly, from what I see, the arty designy web dev types.

That doesn't take away from the real problems, or the tricky design or difficulty in building a compiler for the community.

[qwertyuiop924]

But the people behind those libraries are part of the community.

[monknomo]

Sure, and they drive the direction of the community, but they are also a miniscule minority