This comment by @stupidcar (December 5, 2017) [1] from the first Parceljs post seems pertinent. I’m not pasting the entire comment; visit the link below to read it:
> The eternal cycle of developer tool bullshit:
> 1. "Ugh, OldTool™ v3.0.0 is overcomplicated, bloated, slow and unnecessarily configurable!"
> 2. "Introducing SuperTool™ v1.0.0, which just does the stuff you really need. No bloated configuration. No huge ecosystem of extensions. Simple, straightforward and fast."
> 3. "SuperTool™ v1.0.0 is great! But our setup really needs it to do something a bit different, so we've hacked in this extension."
> ...repeat for a while...
> 10. "Introducing SuperTool™ v2.0.0, which now has a more flexible API and configuration , allowing many former hacks to be done in a straightforward way."
> …