> I wonder if there is a common mindset that the majority of web developers have which causes them to love overcomplexity so much; certainly it's there in other

> I wonder if there is a common mindset that the majority of web developers have which causes them to love overcomplexity so much; certainly it's there in other areas of programming, but it is not quite as prevalent. Is this really unique to (frontend) web developers? I've heard plenty of stories of people building tangled webs of microservices when a monolith would be fine, using Kubernetes to run their weblog, using Hadoop with small datasets, etc.