Gulp is extremely out of date these days.

Using webpack resulted in some of the most painful experiences of supporting serious production software in my career.

The progress and maturity of JS tooling/DX as a result of stuff like esbuild and Vite, or Typescript more generally, can not he understated.

For people not doing frontend it can seem like a neverending series of new stuff but there is a very rational and tangible level of progress being made. Especially for serious JS devs not jumping on hype trains.

I don't miss the days of gulp and webpack at all and I don't blame anyone for hating on JS if they experienced using them professionally.