This is not the case. I love esbuild and hope to see it go far, but Webpack does out of the box most of what esbuild (today) does as well, with the notable exception of TypeScript /jsx transpilation. For more advanced scenarios, like dealing with css modules, you do need plugins -- but esbuild doesn't support most of these scenarios today at all.
It's like saying VS Code does nothing: you probably want extensions to help you out and let you do more complex things more easily, but it doesn't "do nothing" out of the box.
This is not the case. I love esbuild and hope to see it go far, but Webpack does out of the box most of what esbuild (today) does as well, with the notable exception of TypeScript /jsx transpilation. For more advanced scenarios, like dealing with css modules, you do need plugins -- but esbuild doesn't support most of these scenarios today at all.
It's like saying VS Code does nothing: you probably want extensions to help you out and let you do more complex things more easily, but it doesn't "do nothing" out of the box.