[elendee]

I think that people mistake building/ bundling js with compiling js. even when you use bundlers, the code still needs to be compiled by the JIT. so bundling is really kind of a weird step that makes web dev different afaik. they're trying to turn browser dev into a standardized scripting environment and stop the silly browsers from trying to innovate in what should be user-dev space. That's my idealistic take at least.

personally I've been using vanilla es6 for years and not bundling, because I dont care about mobile safari, and I love it.