Stacks have grown easier, but larger. The size of the labor pool is larger, and there are more abstractions. There was a time when programmers were all physici

Stacks have grown easier, but larger. The size of the labor pool is larger, and there are more abstractions. There was a time when programmers were all physicists, but I think it'd be silly to measure the talent of developers from the 90s by that standard. Ditto for measuring full stack developers by standard from a time when you needed nothing more than C and shell access to a cgi-bin folder.