> I complain here and everywhere about the insane complexity in modern-day web app dev. As a frontend dev, I don't think complexity is the issue. I _love_ the

> I complain here and everywhere about the insane complexity in modern-day web app dev. As a frontend dev, I don't think complexity is the issue. I _love_ the new tools at my disposal and am grateful that time has done away with many issues we used to have, such as poor cross-browser compatibility. Rather, I think the main problem has to do with layers. The bottom layers - the hardware, the kernel - they just work. It's the topmost layers that are the problem - there's a constant battle with dependencies, configurations and tools. I'm sure that a lot of this frustration would go away if people weren't forced to do yak-shaving every time they wanted to develop an app.