I honestly believe that the mid 2000s were a golden age of easy to use programming tools. Wanted to make a professional looking website with little code? Dream

I honestly believe that the mid 2000s were a golden age of easy to use programming tools. Wanted to make a professional looking website with little code? Dreamweaver. Wanted to write a desktop application with little code? Visual Basic. Wanted to make a game or animation? Flash. Want to write a web application? PHP, just drop it on a server. Even as you started to get more complex into the late 2000s, Ruby on Rails on Heroku is still worlds easier than pretty much anything that's come after it. Today you have buildpacks and webpack and deployment pipelines and confusingly named cloud services and yet another Javascript framework. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses but everything seemed easier back then. And I'm not sure what we've gotten in return for the complexity.