To give you a simple example.
"What's the best web framework these days for fullstack JS work?"
Ok, Hono, found that. Installed it, great, it even runs well with Bun. Holy shit, it seems like JS is catching up! But now how do I talk to my database? Hono has no such thing, you're on your own.
Ok, let's use Prisma but setting that up there is no one-true-way, it's all blog posts and praying you followed the right one. Also Prisma seems to now work with joins?
Migrations? You set that up manually.
Deploying is another story.
Very painful.
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Compare to Laravel, Rails or Phoenix. All these things baked in, one blessed paved road to tackle the common things 99.9% of web apps need. We are blessed to have all this great work for free, right at our fingertips. People donated a lot of time and love into building them. I hope javascript one day reaches that level.
It's still cowboyitis out there.