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It's honestly too simple, more work has to be done to get it to be actually useful and scalable.

Such a strange wording. Sounds like you're saying "It's too simple, we need to make it more not-simple" while anyone would agree that simple is better than non-simple. What if it can be simple, useful and scalable? That's the ideal I think.

I don't think it's categorically wrong to say something is too simple. There are accepted terms for that: over-simplification, simplistic.

There's also the Einstein line: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

I have no idea if PeerJS is actually too simple, but the "shape" of KaoruAoiShiho's statement seems fine.

No application implemented within a browser is "simple". It's obfuscated and hidden complexity of a scale so large than only mega-corps are capable of handling, and so chosing, which directions things go.

Simple would be a real application not subject to the constant churn and complexity of corporate driven web.

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