I am very thankful for my theory heavy CS degree background because now that I'm in the workforce I have realized that I and literally of my web dev colleagues

I am very thankful for my theory heavy CS degree background because now that I'm in the workforce I have realized that I and literally of my web dev colleagues are just doing shit very poorly that was well studied, classified, and generalized 50 years ago. How many different ways can we create a simple state machine? With modern javascript frameworks the ways are endless and needlessly complex. The worst part is that NOBODY KNOW THIS because they're all just code monkeys.