It’s definitely insane, but you came into this part of the field when it was still fairly young. 13 years is a long time for technologies to build on top of ea

It’s definitely insane, but you came into this part of the field when it was still fairly young. 13 years is a long time for technologies to build on top of each other, and while more things are possible now than ever, a trade off of that is that complexity is higher than ever, too. Also, the boring middle road doesn’t get the press. No one is writing stories about all the little apps and services chugging along with their solid rails or laravel or whatever backends, serving basic html or API requests all day.