That's the rub though, these aren't "new abilities". more than half of what Lodash does is stuff that's been in JavaScript for 20+ years. A major chunk of it reeks of the guy who created it not even bothering to read all the functions that already existed in JS.

And the other half is cryptic, convoluted, half-assed ways of doing things in as inefficient a manner as possible.

And if people would stop using bloated libraries to write two to ten times the coded needed to do the job, tools like webpack wouldn't even need to exist.

Frameworks seem to universally be hoodoo voodoo scam artist rubbish designed to prey on the ignorant and gullible.

I mean seriously, the only reason to use most of what Lodash does is if you need IE 5.5 / earlier support. Idiocy like its join method is redundant to stuff implemented in IE 6!