I'm not entirely sure but I see this pop up a lot with webpack. Webpack is not inherently difficult to configure, it just requires you to read the documentation. All these solutions are doing is adding what they feel are sane defaults to the webpack experience. I don't see how this would appeal to someone who knows webpack well. In my opinion these solutions are just intended for a minority of new developers. For anyone else they could roll out their own faster than they could learn how to use abstraction layers built around someone else's.