Having been a web developer for about 20 years (on and off professionally), I've seen trends where we start off from a point, it's mess, we clean it up and get

Having been a web developer for about 20 years (on and off professionally), I've seen trends where we start off from a point, it's mess, we clean it up and get towards doing 'best practices' and something comes along to totally mess that up. Usually something with the promise of quick and easy and some how it takes hold. While yes, quick and easy to start, but experienced developers know what is quick and easy in the beginning only means a magnitude of work of resolving what that has caused.