"You may be relieved when you install your first Vue CLI 3 project and see there is no webpack.config.js in the project root. This is because most project configuration for Vue CLI 3 is abstracted into plugins and is merged into the base configuration at runtime."

Well, I guess have fun untangling that knot whenever there's a problem with Webpack! We all know how easy and fun the last Webpack major version upgrade was to all the things out there designed to reduce the amount of interaction with it when bootstrapping a project.

Just freaking learn Webpack, dude. I agree that it sucks, but not everything about your job needs to be fun.