Yes, but hopefully done a bit better than before. Maybe the wheel will actually come out round this time? :)

Of course none of this would be needed if we could just use a programming language that wasn't shit, but before that's possible, things like Rome will keep surfacing. It is somewhat amusing to observe, even if you're blessed with not having to touch it.

The problem is more with browsers, than the language itself. Need for transpilation comes from the fact that you don’t control your env and browsers lag behind/are inconsistent. Need for splitting and bundling because we can only specify file resources to be loaded.

Sometimes when the problem is hard you have to "Embrace the yak shave". I think I heard Ian Hickson(hixie) say that.