Noob here :),
What does FOTM stand for?
I'm not saying that they are bad. I've been using them at works for years. I'm saying that some people chose to focus on "old" tech and produce web pages and webapps without much tools. The advantage of this approach is that your environment is stable so you can actually learn and master the tools. You can even find crazy tricks and "abuse" some of the features as you become really good at those.
It can be liberating to stop changing tools every year, but instead learn the intricacies of the basic tools that will never change.