I think your hyperbole is unwarranted; if you're building a "hello world" application, you don't need to use a bundler, or any of the "latest and greatest libraries".

Pick tools which you are comfortable with and which solve problems you actually have. Otherwise, you'll be left complaining about some vague "community" that is "forcing" you to adopt the "modern standard", even though there's nothing "standard" about the apps this "community" develops as a whole.