What I find most strange is that this was never validated by anybody. The company simply trusted the developer, the developer put it in, and nobody said anythi

What I find most strange is that this was never validated by anybody. The company simply trusted the developer, the developer put it in, and nobody said anything. It just worked and everybody was happy. In web dev people struggle to put text to screen. The struggle is real. Everybody has opinions on what the code should look like, how it should work, and will scrutinize each word to death. All of that internal pain is on top of megabytes of giant layers of abstractions that likely went through the same ass pain. Ironically, almost nobody in web dev (maybe about 4% of the people doing this work) actually has any idea what they are doing. Its almost as though people are posturing to justify their existence.