In reply to mark k..

Nothing to add here.
Please find me at least one savvy people who can onestly say that is "normal" for a project of 20/50 files to require the building of an environment with hundreds of dependencies, framework, parser, makes steps, just to build the developing environment. Hours over hours of digging in obscure config files just to run the place where finally you can code your ten files WordPress plugin.
There is too much hipe around all of this, and unfortunately WordPress leaders fell in it.

Oh, btw, I still think that something like Gutenberg is desperately needed for the survival of WordPress in the next years as a successful project