So deep in a rabbit hole of made-up webpack work that shouldn& #39;t exist that I& #39;m seriously considering using esbuild, not even worrying about code splitting or caching, and letting every client download 6 MB of JS on every pageload...

We do all of this soul-sucking, inscrutable work to save our users from 100 ms of waiting? This is the trade-off that we& #39;ve made?

Every couple months I spend multiple days guessing at config files for a build tool that aggregates other build tools (that I also write config files for), where every change requires waiting 6-7 minutes for a deploy to turn around. I can& #39;t believe we just tolerate this.

I wish that more experienced developers would say in public what they say to me about these tools in private.