Comment by narukeu

I agree with your point. From my observation, bundlers in the JavaScript ecosystem are indeed becoming more specialized. Meanwhile, tooling libraries and backend code are genuinely moving away from bundlers due to the growing popularity of the "Pure ESM" concept. If that's the case, bundlers may truly be relevant only for frontend scenarios now. Given this shift, it makes more sense to focus bundlers specifically on frontend use cases, and we no longer need those "general-purpose" bundlers. Moreover, Webpack really is overly complex.