I'm an older developer and I do feel much of the pain of what you are talking about, especially with regard to frameworks/libs getting so abstracted as to be pa

I'm an older developer and I do feel much of the pain of what you are talking about, especially with regard to frameworks/libs getting so abstracted as to be painful to learn and deal with effectively. I realize that many of the practices of the past either won't scale or are not sufficiently secure but I sure do miss the days of, for one example, builds and deploys being simple things that anyone could reason about and accomplish in a matter of minutes (with maybe an easy to learn tool that helped automate even those simple things). Now we have tools that require domain experts to configure and manage effectively, processes that are arcane and convoluted, services that are so flexible and abstract that you can't easily determine how to use them and their documentation has to be so specific that after a bit of time and evolution half of what you find online is wildly out of date, "Oh, yeah... don't follow those instructions you found on our site. Try this Github repo instead". I miss just building cool things but I also feel so burnt out and worried about income that I have fallen into a rut myself.