Yes, I just use es6, babel, webpack, jquery. it's enough for me to make web front service.

I think many front framework are there. Their idea is not bad, but the result that they make is boiled down to the vanilla. They exists just some higher layer. but same result.

Yes, I got overwhelmed long time ago.

And I don't "just wish", I do it for years already.

Yup...

hshno.de/BJvI-FgXM

However, don't think that Node.js and Express require a JS Stack like MEAN, MERN, MEVN, BLEVIN, BLAVIN, SCHMATHEN. ;)

Here's something you may enjoy sandboxing and re-sculpting:

github.com/stevenventimiglia/Express

I call it a MEH Stack (MongoDB, Express/EJS, HTML/CSS/JS), since it's nothing special until you do something with it.

I partially agree with you. Read my publish about it if you have time (5-6 minutes read).

Yeah, but I have my own tiny turboboosted library called RE:DOM.. It's like vanilla, but nice little sugar sprinkled on it 😎

https://redom.js.org

Not overwhelmed, mostly annoyed by all the wheel reinventions, but yes, I do use plain stuff when I know it's not gonna be a big codebase or the bulk of the work is in the backend. If it is big, or it's becoming so, then I'd use angular.

No, never. Standing on the shoulders of giants and loving it.

That's like saying... do you ever get overwhelmed by all the food in a grocery store? Don't you wish you could just grow all your own food? (sure, some people choose that path... I guess it's fine if you don't like selection or fancy meals).

Actually, I mostly use Vanilla only. It is possible. It is doable. All you literally have to do is not use a framework or library ;)