I mean, I don’t necessarily disagree with the main point, but this feels like a short argument with straw-men and poor faith. Personally, I think another comme

I mean, I don’t necessarily disagree with the main point, but this feels like a short argument with straw-men and poor faith. Personally, I think another commenter got it right pointing to commoditization (interestingly I find the commoditization of computing in general has greatly decreased my interest in it, but that’s a me problem), though I always find the ire towards web dev as the root of all evil to be a little too strong. There’s a lot of bullshit, but I see bullshit in plenty of other domains as well. Web development just has the status of being the largest platform at the time. Also over abstracting is bad, so is over/pre-optimization and frameworks can add a ton of unnecessary overhead, but y’know, something about hammers. That being said, I’d rather inherit an overcomplicated Laravel application from someone that an overcomplicated raw-PHP monolith.