Can you talk more about how WMR fits into the morass of Snowpack, Vite, Rome, Parcel etc.? The self-contained aspect looks great, but I'm at a loss as to how this doesn't also add more entropy into the pool of "next-gen" JS build tools (and thus more analysis paralysis for webdevs)...
The tooling space isn't broad enough to allow for differentiation across the board, so we have a number of tools that are working to validate/popularize a subset of functionality on top of the basics.
WMR's unique take is basically to be instant in every possible way, and to provide an ideal substrate for us to build and show Preact features that rely on bundler semantics. We have maintained a Webpack-based build tool for Preact for a while, and wanted to explore what a total re-think would look like. We also spent a while building out new pieces of the bundler that fit this model better than repurposing existing generalized tooling. This is one of the reasons WMR builds as fast as it does despite doing so much optimization work - it's designed around a singular goal and we allowed for very limited compromise.
I think that after a few years we will see a corresponding consolidation of the tools you mentioned, as the dust settles on this newer dev/prod split paradigm and it's effect on the bundler plugin ecosystem.
