You sound like one of the most toxic people on the face of the planet. I just thought someone should tell you that in-case you're unaware of how horrific you are.
I'm not really sure what you're saying at all? It seems like we have agreed but I simply cannot comprehend your example.
The point I was making is that we could all spend our time going as deep as possible with as little abstraction as possible and end up writing stuff in assembly because "it's important to know how something works".
There is always a cost/benefit with abstraction when it comes to getting things done.
This is exactly it summarised. It's more frustration at the extra verbosity I had to put in to do something I'd become so accustomed to doing in a line or two.
I don't disagree that you should know core concepts of what you're writing. I write a lot of Go without any heavy abstraction libraries (i.e ORMs) and have done with others like PHP in the past too.
With abstraction there has to be a balance though. Sure, I concede that knowing how it works is actually important, hence why I've spent a lot of time doing things without libraries in the past, especially as I was learning. It actually enrages me when people who've only ever used ORMs make super basic mistakes when writing and executing SQL themselves for the first time, i.e selecting a bunch of relationships in a loop one by one, instead of getting them all in one query. Stuff like that is a good example of how only ever working with abstracted versions of your tech stack results in mistakes down the line that have costs, since the abstracted version doesn't explain these concepts to you.
However, when it comes to actually trying to get things done efficiently, abstraction can help a bunch. Writing a bunch of stuff from scratch every time is not particularly productive either.
I'm heavily inclined to agree with this. In fact, only this weekend I was working on a very simple one page tool and from the get-go I decided to adopt this "vanilla" only approach, i.e no JS libraries really at all.
Pretty quickly I found myself wishing I had just used jQuery or at least some other library to make stuff easier and get things done faster. When I finally got it completed in the end I wasn't sure why I bothered to struggle and waste so much time instead of just including jQuery and making things a bunch easier and less verbose. Sure, there may be other libraries worth using instead but the point against the "vanilla JS is all you need" argument.
I actually found the cited website in this post http://youmightnotneedjquery.com to be so strange as examples of why you may not need jQuery that it may be satire. I was surprised to find out that it was not satire. So I actually forked it and created https://youmightneedjquery.com, on which I may change some text in the future. It may not load for you yet as the DNS propagates.