What's with everyone's obsession with treating html like assembly: "Only people with long white hair and beards, magic wands and capes know html... Like... Like

What's with everyone's obsession with treating html like assembly: "Only people with long white hair and beards, magic wands and capes know html... Like... Like Gandalf, bruh!" General question, it's been my main criticism towards all the modern js "frameworks" like react, vue and whatnot. Seriously, what gives?