yeah, plus stack traces, debuggers, and profiling tools are easier to use when all of the non-essential complexity is stripped out. which in turn means it's possible to work productively on software that solves more complex problems.

that's in contrast with the sort of stuff that invariably shows up when something falls over somewhere in a dependency:

    cannot access property "apply" of null
    at forEach()
    at setTimeout()
    at digest()
    at callback()
    at then()
    ...

it's not fun to step through or profile that sort of code either...