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Blanket statements about "web development" are not reasonable to make because there's such a wide variety of applications.

Is using TypeScript, Webpack, React, and 20 other external libraries "too complicated" for a static marketing site? Probably. For a 200,000 LOC complex productivity tool? Probably not.

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Seriously, it's just poor professional discretion. I work on a cross-browser multimedia sequencer, no fucking way you're hand writing all necessary DOM management code. You absolutely need React for that to prevent that kind of shit show. This custom video player project the team got assigned? Probably can write those on our own. To be fair though, framework and library marketing tends to be fairly disinterested in talking about suitable and unsuitable problem cases. I don't think that's completely intentional, but front-end tends to have more engineers with non-CS and other untraditional software education backgrounds in situations where they feel pressure to "get shit done"

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