Literally what I went through as well just trying to use a distance between two points module... I wish I was a cool front end kid.... but this type of experience is exactly what turns me off from front end dev
I wish that type of experience would be uncommon, rare, exceptions... But in my perspective is the real true state of front-end today. Everything is broken from a outside perspective, so much changes happened that for me learning the overall Common Lisp specification (from 1000+ pages) it's more easy to do JS dev stuff on browser.