> If you have a simple website built on boring technologies like HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS, then nearly anyone can read, understand, and make changes to it, eve

> If you have a simple website built on boring technologies like HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS, then nearly anyone can read, understand, and make changes to it, even backend developers. If you instead wrote it in React/Webpack/etc. then suddenly only frontend experts can understand and contribute and debug. The problem with this thinking is you assume that the backend developers know HTML, CSS and vanilla JS, but don't make that assumption for React/Webpack/etc because then your argument wouldn't be valid.