...really depends on your background -- and, to some extent, who you work for. but i do agree with you saying that web development has become hard. it has, ind

...really depends on your background -- and, to some extent, who you work for. but i do agree with you saying that web development has become hard. it has, indeed. we made it hard. i have seen beginners struggle with getting started, and i do struggle with it myself sometimes, even though i am no beginner. the advantage that i, and experienced people, have over people just getting started is having witnessed the whole thing grow and change over time. it means it's easier for us to dismiss silly ideas because we have seen them over and over, and recognize good ideas. we became good at filtering the signal from the noise. example: jsx (from reactjs) is a good idea. why? php has done before and it worked. it got many people into web development. now, some people rediscovered that embedding html in a programming language is not bad and applied it to modern javascript and modern web. for some of us it's deja vu. i guess what i want to say is there's no need to despair. most people don't know the history of our field and continue to re-invent things over and over. i have recently been enjoying beginners tutorials much more than the so called experts talks. there are plenty of them on youtube. grab any of them and have fun!