[goosejuice]

I believe we see such diversity because of the unique environment in which JS has come to exist. Folks who are writing all these tools are trying too solve problems from the outside in for their small corner of an incredibly large ecosystem.

It's a snow ball rolling down an infinitely long mountain. I believe this may never settle.

Mainstream browsers have already coalesced on a no build solution but it's profitable, by fame or fortune, to continue building solutions that require bundle and compile steps. Then others use those because off the shelf libs require them and save time and money.