The error messages, at least in front-end, have gotten worse. In 2012 I had a stack trace that I could read and eventually figure out what happened. Nowadays

The error messages, at least in front-end, have gotten worse. In 2012 I had a stack trace that I could read and eventually figure out what happened. Nowadays it's async framework method calls upon async framework method calls and that is an improvement in the tooling, because it can now glue them together. Next-gen frameworks are undoing that mess, but god help you if you use some third party library for e.g. state management.