See, maybe this is the get-off-my-lawn coming out of me but it pains me that that complex setup is the nicest and fastest frontend build pipeline you've had.
Almost a whole decade ago we had pretty simple and straight forward build patterns for frontend. Essentially running the site as is from the VCS was in "debug" mode and you'd write scripts that combines and minifies everything and plugs it right back into the html when you "build" it. And that it was it. Simple and fast.
I'm sure using ES2015, TypeScript, SCSS, handlebars and a million other things that get transpiled, concatenated and minified help with productivity for some people but it just seems insanely overly complex to me especially when half of the examples that show how "simple" many of these technologies are can also be made very simple using standard API calls.
I like things simple. As simple as possible. Webpack is probably not for me but I wanted to provide my own perspective to see if anyone shares it or if I'm more of an outlier.