That's why I haven't even bothered getting into the atrocity that is modern frontend. I still build stuff mostly like it's 2007. In my projects I don't even have much of a frontend — most of the functionality works without any JavaScript whatsoever — but the JS that I do have has to contain exactly zero third-party runtime dependencies. I'm okay with self-contained third-party scripts like Leaflet for when I need to display a map, and I'm okay with build tools like TypeScript and PostCSS. But that's it really. I'm not having any of that abstraction-over-single-platform nonsense.
This approach is ideal until you try to grow your design team. People will poke at your code for money but it takes a while for them to orient to doing things without their heavy environments.
