I would argue that web development is less complicated than it used to be for the same quality of output. We now have source maps, debuggers, bundlers, more pow

I would argue that web development is less complicated than it used to be for the same quality of output. We now have source maps, debuggers, bundlers, more powerful languages, apis and a narrow range of browsers to hit with all that. So now you can be more expressive, target more browsers easily, have greatly simplified script loading and module management, much, much better debugging tools, with less effort. The tools make it easier for you to be a good developer. Good web development was never easy.