Have you tried to debug babelified react site with sourcemaps and whatever ... I spent four hours just to find that the latest and greatest express don't have

Have you tried to debug babelified react site with sourcemaps and whatever ... I spent four hours just to find that the latest and greatest express don't have the simple global site protection with a password (that it had in version 3) like with .htaccess - it is just not possible anymore. There were no elegant solutions. There may be some marginal progress while doing complex stuff, but doing the simple is harder and harder with each passing year. Here is a simple question - is making working UI now easier than with MFC circa 1999. If the answer is no- than that progress is imaginary. Every new thing is strongly opinionated, doesn't work and relies on magic. Debugging is nightmare and we have layers upon layers of abstractions. Please for the love of Cthulhu - if any of you googlers, facebookers, twitterers read this - next time you start doing the next big thing let these 3 be your guiding lights - the code and flow must be easy to understand, it should be easy to debug, it should be easy to pinpoint where in the code something happens - all of the frameworks' benefits become marginal at best if I have to spend 4 hours finding the exact event chain and context and place in the framework that fires that ajax request. /rant over