[jlongster]

I think there's a certain kind of person that's attractive to these kind of verbose, complex bootstrapping tools. Not that that's a bad thing at all, but like you said, it's not for everyone.

I can see the usefulness, but when I try to use it, it just feels like it has a steep learning curve and I could better invest my time elsewhere.

I use node heavily, and setting up the project, `npm install express` and a few other libraries, only takes a few seconds. I can start writing code quickly. I also don't create new projects that often, but I can't imagine most people are daily creating new projects.

At work we have our own django bootstrap that we can easily hack on and clone.

I can't say exactly why it doesn't fit my use case, but it just doesn't feel right for some reason. It has a ton of dependencies. I don't see why I shouldn't just use grunt and bower directly, etc etc.