How it feels to be an old school web-based sports sim dev when tons of vibecoded web-based sports sims are being released

Back when I started working on the web-based version of Basketball GM in 2012, web development was very different. npm was brand new and hardly anyone used it. Bundling/deploying JS was very primitive, a lot of people still were just concatenating files together. And things like TypeScript, React, async/await... these did not even exist yet! It was really difficult! The tools and documentation…