Web dev has gotten more complex with more complex requirements, but not linearly - its easier to build more complicated products on the web, and as this article

Web dev has gotten more complex with more complex requirements, but not linearly - its easier to build more complicated products on the web, and as this article shows the primitives we have are much more powerful. If you want to build something you build back in the 2000s, its so much easier than it was back then.