I disagree that investors are the cause, though I appreciate the sentiment. Communities develop from leaders, and the only leader Node &amp; Javascript has ever had was Ryan Dahl. From what I can tell, Ryan blindly applied unix principles to the server in a garbage language. I don&#x27;t know why he thought that was a good idea; maybe he was just fuckin bored. That sentiment, that tiny is better, was like patient zero, and the frontend community with no leader of it&#x27;s own, cargo-culted it to infinity.<p>These idiots literally invented a principle that people now refer to as &quot;composibility&quot;. Really it means that your library is fucking tiny and does nothing.<p>The only form of leadership present in the frontend development community are large companies, like Facebook. So what happens is a developer who works for Facebook inherits Facebook&#x27;s brand power within the community, and a bunch of junior developers who don&#x27;t have a clue assume developer X is Uncle-fuckin Bob. Inmates running the asylum.<p>There is no pragmatic thought leadership in Javascript; only children looking for recognition and a podium at an O&#x27;Reilly conference.