[jeremiep]

> because they make our work easier

This seems to be my biggest pet peeve with the JS ecosystem as a whole; people chase things that are easy to learn rather than simple to reason about once learned and the result is almost always a convoluted mess of a codebase, regardless of the project.

I used jQuery, then Underscore, and later lodash; now I'm using ClojureScript and wondering why I ever could enjoy any of those crippled FP alternatives in the past.

"Someone who doesn't know about X will create its own worse version" is true, but it also applies to you and everyone else :) We don't know what we don't know (thats meta-ignorance) and we tend to assume what we do know is the state of the art, it quite usually is very far from it!