"Driving your car is far more safe while drunk than blindfolded and on cocaine"
You can sprinkle some jQuery here and there without it being 'spaghetti'. Also, how is having thousands of dependencies for a bit of HTML rendering 'simple'?
If you add up the lines of code that your javascript dependencies have versus the lines of HTML code that is generated with those hundreds of thousands of lines of JS, then probably yes, the lines of HTML are only few.
