[mbrock]

Yeah, I think it's a continuous tension in software development, and for various reasons I have a hunch that it's useful to kind of try to nudge the JavaScript world towards the appreciation of basic, stupid, non-fancy simplicity. Actually that's true for way more than JavaScript. I felt the same thing very strongly the last time I installed desktop Ubuntu... I can sometimes get slightly obnoxious in my nudging, because "moving parts" complexity irritates me on a visceral level. Which can lead to NIH syndrome... By the way, Nick Bostrom uses the term "infrastructure profusion" to describe a particular nightmare scenario of AI, and I think it's evocative, so I've started to think of human intelligence as prone to this profusion, too. A perfect example would be something like if you had problems with your multiple JavaScript build tools and so you started a new build tool project to coordinate all your other build tools... Call it something cool, like "Leviathan"!