I was (am maybe.) one of those douches that looked down on webdevs. I was so, so wrong. It came from fetishizing complexity and "smartness". Even setting aside

I was (am maybe.) one of those douches that looked down on webdevs. I was so, so wrong. It came from fetishizing complexity and "smartness". Even setting aside the issue of complexity, from a business perspective, web dev is immensely valuable and only becoming more so. And as for complexity, I always thought I could learn it easily because its "not real CS" but man its a huge, complex, ever-changing ecosystem and not at all easy. And it takes a much broader set of skills (both technical and non-technical) than pure backend programming or whatever. Mad respect to all web devs, and all devs. The sooner we get rid of the caste system within software the better.