I don’t have a lot of experience in Node development
From looking at a few, my concern is they are inherently bloated
JS bundlers are kind of a hot mess, but try learning a little bit more about things before you decide you're smarter than everyone else working in the space.
Take this:
> These things typically produce tens of thousands of lines just to add simple libraries.
If you're ending up with a bundle that's thousands of lines long, you've done something wrong. My team use esbuild to bundle code for AWS Lambdas and usually end up with minified code under a couple of kilobytes (though admittedly the bulkier stuff sits in a Lambda layer - since, you know, bundling everything under the sun would be stupid).
All I’m trying to say is bundling is something that shouldn’t really exist. It doesn’t take a veteran to know that.