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Typically assets involve more than just image and css files esp for any project you're building a full server for (i.e. not done with a static site generator), so yes that makes things more complicated, but their job is to remove the boilerplate from development (i.e. provide a "framework" to develop in) so you can do your existing development more easily in new projects.

And if you already have a better solution, or your solution requires an even more complicated set of tooling, just add `--no-gulp` and it won't bother you.