Technologies become more complex as people accumulate experience. Web only started in the 90s, and was intentionally designed to be simple (html and stuff). Ev

Technologies become more complex as people accumulate experience. Web only started in the 90s, and was intentionally designed to be simple (html and stuff). Even so, it's morphed into a very complex thing already. It doesn't feel like so because you (and to some extent, I too) have been witnessing its evolution as it happens, so it's all incremental, but I can imagine a total newbie coming into the field and feeling overwhelmed. Like, try to explain things like CSRF tokens, Web Assembly, HTTP/3...