[btbuildem]

Putting JS in the backend was a tragic mistake born of laziness and ignorance. It should not be a surprise that everything else that followed suffers the consequences of these root traits as well. JS was barely acceptable when it was caged in browser-land, and we'd all be better off had it stayed there.

FE development has some unique challenges, but in my experience a lot of people who work in this domain try to find their own solutions to problems that have already been solved decades prior. There's a reason the build chains are fragile and a nightmare to configure, that package lists are out of date the moment they're published, and that it takes a sustained effort to maintain a project viable even if you're not adding features or fixing bugs. It's absurd, and it's the status quo.

To take this into other areas of development (like BE for example) simply because that's what you're familiar with... it really is a special kind of masochism.