In all seriousness, I'm not seeing how yet another build system with a plugin architecture changes anything for frontend development. I'm also not seeing what this extra layer offers over using Webpack directly.
I struggled a few months to get a decent working structure for multiple environments working when I had to do a largish front-end project (out of my comfort zone and not really a big fan of Javascript), so I think tools like vue-cli are a good idea: set up a sensible base structure, and work on from there if you have both experience and time. Showing an idiomatic architectural layout might also help people to move more quickly from basic "Hello, World!" examples to larger, non-trivial applications, which in my experience is a problem for most programming languages.
On a more serious note: that's why I exited frontend dev 15 years ago and never looked back. I now do hard-ass C and C++, and once I write something it runs for many years with no changes, and dependencies are often a decade old or more.
But, jury's out, so far the Vue developers have managed to make good decisions about most of these things, so they've earned at least a little benefit of the doubt.