@sinbad ahaha welcome to every day of my life as a web app developer 🥲
The tradeoff (presumably) is super fast iteration/instant feedback loop, and to be using the most common (and thus most documented / blogged about / forum-discussed) language.
Dependency hell is real, though. Important part of js dev is strategically picking your deps and knowing when to write something from scratch.
I definitely feel the deprecation warning after just 12 months thing lol. I swear sometimes I come back to a project after a weekend away and suddenly it's ancient.