Thanks, that means a lot! Totally agree about boilerplate. I quickly tired of the copying and staleness of boilerplates, but I think the contributors of create-react-app make some valid points.

Working with the configuration needs of many loaders and concerns is difficult. Webpack configuration is not well-suited for keeping these separate and merging them back together later. This is a big reason why Neutrino abandoned using raw Webpack-based configurations merging across presets, favoring a single configuration API that all presets interact with. It takes a lot of the difficulty away from keeping things separate and abstract.