I agree with most of the author's opinions. I'm old enough to have seen the rise & fall of 90's development. Developers who have been ingrained in web technolo

I agree with most of the author's opinions. I'm old enough to have seen the rise & fall of 90's development. Developers who have been ingrained in web technologies tend to think of the times before as dark ages. They really weren't. Today simply isn't the absolute best that all things have ever been. Sure some things were a bit simpler & less flashy then and hardware was more limited, but there were a lot of great ideas that have been forgotten and shoved aside in the excitement for modernization. Best practices & whatnot. But, what the author forgets, is that this is the state of things. Really inventive ideas exist, sometimes in niches, die, and then get rediscovered and reimplemented in circuitous ways. Asinine artifacts tend to arise in every paradigm shift. I'd argue that word processing, for example, has barely caught up to the days prior to the graphical user interface. Now, with the web browser & mobile, it hasn't even come close to feature parity yet. It will, eventually, mostly. And it will be exponentially more bloated and complicated than before. Such are things.