I've seen development environments that try to abstract away the underlying web mechanisms[1], which can make it very hard to tell what's really going on at the

I've seen development environments that try to abstract away the underlying web mechanisms[1], which can make it very hard to tell what's really going on at the request level. Combine that with incurious developers, deadlines and a need to ship anything that works and this is what you get. [1] I'm thinking in particular of Ars Digita's second system effect Java replacement for their original Tcl environment. It tried to turn everything into late 1990s Java buzzwords and was completely opaque, as well as being comically inefficient.