Coming from a background creating C++ GUI programs, the web's GUI creation process feels like cake. What is hard for me is all the options, best practices, and

Coming from a background creating C++ GUI programs, the web's GUI creation process feels like cake. What is hard for me is all the options, best practices, and new JavaScript frameworks coming out every year. Settle down I say. Plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is easy. No need to add endless layers on top, IMO. Next, you have to choose a backend. Okay, again, lots of options. All of this, combined, does feel like unnecessary mental anguish to get really simple things done. I think we got to this point because everyone started making their own "frameworks" and languages. With a single OS vendor there was a commonality. With the web, it is every tom, dick, and harry trying to lead the way. The web is open. Open means lots of shouting.