[kaesve]

There's a ton of value in building stuff without tools. It's somewhat similar to learning two frameworks; seeing React's philosophy makes me a better Vue programmer. In a similar vain, building stuff without tools teaches me a lot about what those tools actually offer me. What stuff is really hard? What stuff is really easy to abstract out? How do Vue/React/Whatever do these things?

It also teaches you more about your platform. In the end, all these web tools and frameworks are running in that same browser. I find especially with newer web developers, it's hard to solve something in React/Vue/.. because they don't know how to break up the problem. If you'd roughly know how to solve the problem without those frameworks, it becomes much easier to figure out how to solve it with them too.

Finally, I also just get toolchain fatigue. If I want to build a simple landing page, I don't want to learn new stuff, I don't want to read what changed in the latest versions, what the correct way of the day is to set up a project. Honestly, I don't even want to have a build pipeline and module swapping dev server, that inevitably needs to be configured. Just some static html/css/js is often good enough. And as I said, you also learn which problems frameworks solve well, so you'll know when some static files isn't the right choice.