I don't think I agree. I've been developing stuff for the web since the mid-90s, when TABLEs were just about starting to be a thing and Perl was definitely the

I don't think I agree. I've been developing stuff for the web since the mid-90s, when TABLEs were just about starting to be a thing and Perl was definitely the preferred choice on the server. There has been plenty of excitement along the way, undeniably, but it feels like HTML5 took forever to get to where Flash was, JavaScript on the server still underwhelms me, and it seems almost daily to get more complex and full of enterprise beans, browsers are far from equal, the CSS3 spec isn't finished, developing for the mobile web is often a pretty wretched experience... and my clients still ask me to make their logos bigger and complain that important stuff is below the fold. Am I jaded? You bet. But hey, at least we can centre things vertically in CSS with Flexbox now (apart from the dubious browser support, of course).