[elevader]

Webpack sure has problems (for example speed) but most of the more niche things that people do aren't actually supported by it but implemented through the plugin system, at which point any category of niche/sane kind of flies out of the window. If you enable people to do weird things people will do weird and maybe unwise things. The best solution might be to take notes of how people tend to develop js stuff nowadays, scrap javascript completely and use something completely new that doesn't have the issues of javascript. But that seems rather unrealistic at this point.