[jwarkentin]

I disagree that it's really even that hard to start with. It's like any library or framework. You have to learn it initially, but then it's just not that hard. I've been using RequireJS for a couple years as well as node.js and none of the complaints really resonated with me.

I would go so far as saying that the author has probably been using them wrong. If you follow the right patterns and write good code it should be a non-issue.