• It was also nice not having to deal with artificially-introduced callbacks or async behavior. Most of the browser's API is synchronous, and so the code was easy to follow and understand. I never write `async` or `await` and that was very nice
• Similarly, I wrote a 300 line test harness and ws retroactively happy to not have to deal with Cypress or Playwright - get yourself some distance from these tools and you will understand how unhappy they are making you