Well, every app is a snowflake, but there's now a pretty good snowflake framework. Meaning: programming is all about abstractions, and if you hit the right leve

Well, every app is a snowflake, but there's now a pretty good snowflake framework. Meaning: programming is all about abstractions, and if you hit the right level, all applications pretty much converge. Considering the manpower invested into today's frameworks and tooling, any single individual or small team doesn't stand a chance. Though the learning curve is much too steep at the moment. It's improving, mostly because 10-level deep callbacks are being replaced with promises/await/async, but especially the tooling is still a daunting challenge for many. There are now a few promising methods to get something running fast (create-react-app), but that seems to lead to opaque systems that usually work, but are prone to end up completely broken and incomprehensible when you're trying to customize them – because, for example, they do not validate their config files, use inconsistent naming, or deeply nested json where any deviation from the expected structure leads to silent failure.