Up until recently I would not have agreed with you. However, recently I&#x27;ve skipped on Gulp and Grunt and it has helped me with various things:<p>* Saves me time so I don&#x27;t need to figure out why a Gulp&#x2F;Grunt script is behaving erratically, such as a watch that crashes even though exceptions are being caught for it<p>* Reduces my development depenencies, which helps with the following two things:<p>* There&#x27;s less of a chance that there will be a package that needs to be built that will crash and burn on Windows<p>* I don&#x27;t need to download a shit ton of stuff from NPM every time I clone from Git<p>* Helps me think about my architecture critically as I don&#x27;t want to do anything too complicated outside of Gulp&#x2F;Grunt<p>* I don&#x27;t need to wait for someone to make a plugin for a test runner