Bit of a false equivalence, but kinda. How you make a todo list isn't nearly as important as getting your shit done, which can be easily done with a pen and a notebook.
This is why the JS community is so fucked. They take what should be a simple website and needlessly complicate it by (poorly) reimplementing what web browsers can already do.
Hey, so, uh... all you need to clone HN is Postgres and some HTML/CSS and a smidgen of JavaScript. Good God, must we pull in the entire JavaScript ecosystem for a simple forum now?