The only real objective thing I can say about it is that much of the modern ecosystem can have a pretty steep learning curve. Frontend alone, React is quite har

The only real objective thing I can say about it is that much of the modern ecosystem can have a pretty steep learning curve. Frontend alone, React is quite hard to grasp for a beginner. I'm a Svelte fan and I think it's a lot easier than React, but even then it's no competition to just plain old HTML files and some light JS. On the backend, now you have this fragmentation in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Elixir, etc. In the Matt's Script Archive days, CGI scripts were pretty much only Perl. There were other languages used by some, but they were rare. If you wanted to learn Perl CGI scripts, you pretty much downloaded MSA as well as tons of other free scripts and read them, tweak them, play with them and figured things out. (Not unlike how you simply View Source on frontend to learn HTML and JS)