I would tell them they don't need to figure out 20 different technologies. If they think they do, they've missed the point of the "basic" in "basic web project"

I would tell them they don't need to figure out 20 different technologies. If they think they do, they've missed the point of the "basic" in "basic web project". If the 20 different technologies in your example include such basic things as an IDE and version control (evidently it includes at least the latter), I would tell them to start at the basics and learn the tools before they expect to be able to use them.