The problem is bigger, IMO.
Frontend is generally a disgrace for this profession. Biggest projects are a mess that would never see the light of day had they been backend-related. Babel, React, Webpack are maintained far worse than libraries having 10% of their userbase in languages like Python.
JS is a fucked up language and we all know it. You couldn't done any worse if you tried to.
Until we as a community will not stop tolerating this bullshit, problems will be solved using 2000% more memory/cpu/io than they actually need.
