The amount of effort we've put in to avoid just basic sane development practices and discipline is astounding.
We _could_ spend a few days thinking through the problem and developing a solution that makes sense using our known tools and technologies, by analyzing the issue at fundamental properties, OR FUCK IT, spend a year writing a new JS library that is so full of obfuscated crud that no one can tell if you actually solved the problem or not.
I get it, writing new libraries is fun, but the old tools are there because they've been working, and well, for 30-40 years.
We _could_ spend a few days thinking through the problem and developing a solution that makes sense using our known tools and technologies, by analyzing the issue at fundamental properties, OR FUCK IT, spend a year writing a new JS library that is so full of obfuscated crud that no one can tell if you actually solved the problem or not.
I get it, writing new libraries is fun, but the old tools are there because they've been working, and well, for 30-40 years.