> the move towards more tooling is terrible for what should be something simple. I couldn't disagree more. I think the advances in tooling around web developme

> the move towards more tooling is terrible for what should be something simple. I couldn't disagree more. I think the advances in tooling around web development is extremely exciting and absolutely necessary if we as an industry want to get our act together writing complex web applications. It's worse for getting new people into programming or web development, but there are always pretty simple drop-in scripts people can use to play with things like Babel, React, or even crazy stuff like full client-side module loading with SystemJS: https://gist.github.com/cem2ran/9be3dd3499566302d5ae https://gist.github.com/cem2ran/9be3dd3499566302d5ae > HTML/CSS/JS are not rocket science - in themselves, they're simple languages for building a user-facing app. I think that's extremely dismissive, and woefully underestimates the difficulties one faces building a complex long-lived web application.