I came to this discussion because I wanted good criticism of ViteJS . I genuinely wanted to see it picked apart by experts because I have been thinking about trying it for a while now.

Instead, I'm about 100 comments down and so far all I can see is endless repetition of the same nitpicking complaint that the landing page is not good. The landing page!

If you use this tool you'll spend about 5 minutes on the landing page and potentially hundreds or thousands of hours in the code, API, and docs. So who cares about the damn landing page?

I want discussion of the actual tool, that's what I come to HN for. There doesn't appear to be much of that happening here, unfortunately.

If there was a single comment thread somewhere criticizing the landing page that would be fine, it's a valid complaint. But if pretty much all the top comments are exclusively doing that, or pointing out how pointless a criticism that is (like this one) then this discussion is a failure.

EDIT: scrolling further down I appear to have hit the "oh no frontend dev is so complicated, poor me" section of the discussion. I'm gonna keep digging, wish me luck!

I'm not seeing a lot of "good criticisms" here. Just the typical HN curmudgeons complaining about things that were introduced half a decade ago being too new.

There was no criticism of the tool itself, but how landing page is not instantly clear to developers who are not even frontend-related devs.

What's positive about that? A complaint with proposed action is what can be considered positive, but most complaints here were "I am not frontend dev, I clicked the link, I don't understand anything. They need to telepathically understand what I want and make the page that's to my liking".

It's just pseudointellectuals trying to pose as experts in a field they're not even working in. And here we are, a bunch of bottom feeders arguing over a landing page in year 2022. Oh, how entitled have we become. This situation is absolutely disgusting and not positive.