Well one reason is that there's a huge amount of learning resources for web dev because so many people do it. The tools are also really mature and easy to use d

Well one reason is that there's a huge amount of learning resources for web dev because so many people do it. The tools are also really mature and easy to use due to a lot of investment from the community. Firmware dev you end up working on obscure proprietary systems where you don't have the luxury of just Googling every problem because there isn't a ton of devs working on the same thing as you.