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> But if you want to be a skilled front-end software engineer, it's in your interest to tackle these tools with some zeal.

I guess what we are saying is that there must be a better, not yet invented way to do frontend, without having to deal with this huge complexity that is unique to this specific field.

[JMTQp8lwXL]

You can make it zero-config, polyfill everything, apply all babel plugins so everything is transpiled to support IE 7, for all you care.

But everyone has different needs. So tools like Babel and Webpack allow you to pick-and-choose what polyfills and transpilations are necessary.