[jchw]

While I think this cycle is real, I feel Parcel has done a good job in general being very careful about becoming what they aimed to avoid. Sure, Parcel has some feature creep, but I’d say they have pretty much completely accomplished the goal of removing the need for complicated Webpack configs.

Is it practical? Apparently it’s practical enough that it can compile Monaco Editor, which can either use a fairly hefty Webpack config, or no config at all with Parcel.