This is the problem I have with all these "easy" setups and boilerplate projects. It doesn't matter how you set up your project, unless you do it wrong, it all comes down to a one liner in the end. All these things do is hide the complexity from you with the goal of being able to "get up and running quick", which I find fairly pointless for projects that are of a significant enough size that you're considering using React or Angular for them. You're much better off learning all the tools and understanding how your project works.

But then again, the thing about the overtooling is: I can't find anything in my React stack that is unnecessary or can be removed. And really, all it is is React, Redux and Webpack. I think the complexity of front-end Javascript development is blown a little bit out of proportion.