I agree the hard problems are ones that aren't in the code... but not the ones you list. The ones you list are only a particular sort of intellectual devolutio

I agree the hard problems are ones that aren't in the code... but not the ones you list. The ones you list are only a particular sort of intellectual devolution that has occurred with Javascript. Other languages do not suffer the same psychotic level of being nothing but a morass of constantly churning half-broken tools, a new framework every week, platforms shifting like sand, debugging made into a herculean task, etc. If you're writing in a sensible environment, you can rely on your tools, you can learn them and rely on them for ages, etc.