Great feedback ya’ll! Please keep it coming. Will make sure to address this stuff in coming updates.
I am going to work on releasing some of my Master Course content to help people better understand things like webpack and NPM 🙂 This will be its own stand alone little mini course and not be part of this Gutenberg Development as Gutenberg Development assumes you already know modern JavaScript. But I’ll see if I can do a little mini course on getting up and running with modern JS!
Please keep the feedback coming!