Absolutely agreed. One thing that really concerns me is that the newest generation of web developers really has no idea that web development doesn’t need to be

Absolutely agreed. One thing that really concerns me is that the newest generation of web developers really has no idea that web development doesn’t need to be so bloody complex. I’m working on a simple internal enterprise app for managing document workflow right now. It should just be a basic CRUD application maintained by 2-3 devs at most. Because of how it’s architected (extreme normalization on the backend, Vue used for every single simple component on the front end), we have a team of 15 devs on the project. I had to update the options in a simple select drop-down menu last week. It took me a full day and modifying six files to get it right. 10 years ago it would have been a 20 minute task and two files. It’s sickening because the entire team thinks this is normal.