I understand that you may feel affronted (and apologise for making you feel like that), but I'm actually criticising the web development as an industry and as a

I understand that you may feel affronted (and apologise for making you feel like that), but I'm actually criticising the web development as an industry and as a set of broad trends, rather than individual developers. Sometimes developers may have leverage, but from my experience in backend dev, that's rarely an option.