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Transpiling to JS may be a product of other motives (Typescript, Svelte, Elm etc.)I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying those tools should be avoided too or are you saying they are an exception to the "avoid complexity" rule?
>While Ruby is pretty and all, I don't find that I'm enjoying the lie that is ES6, and don't even get me started on classes in JS, etc.
I don't understand what you mean. What does Ruby have to do with anything? Also, what do you mean by lie?
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Bottom line, JS isn't my favorite language
Ok. That's fine. So what?
> the advantages outweigh the disadvantages
Would you care to elaborate on this? What would you consider to the be the advantages and what makes the complexity disadvantage outweigh them?
> I'm questioning a lot of the group-think decisions.
What is there to question? Don't use tools just because other people are using them, when you encounter a specific problem you want to solve, evaluate the available tools for solving it.
> State management? What is "a variable"?
I'm not sure what you're asking here. Are you asking why people use state managers when building js applications on the web?
