[doomroot]

The reason frontend dev moves "So quickly" is because of new browser developments & capabilities. Esbuild & vite are currently popular because they are one of the first build tools to fully utilize browser ES Modules. This is fundamentally different than what webpack does. Webpack was solving a Pre-ESM problem, "how do we modularize frontend code?" and as such as taken on a lot of bloat to solve this problem which has largely been solved by browser ESM.