I find programming more difficult now. "But wait, you have more experience and we have better tools!" Yes, but programming stacks used to be simple and well-d

I find programming more difficult now. "But wait, you have more experience and we have better tools!" Yes, but programming stacks used to be simple and well-defined. HTML/CSS/jQuery + a LAMP stack or ROR could get you a long way. Baring IE bugs, it was possible to 1) develop without constantly using Google 2) understand what every line of code does 3) be quickly productive, which was very satisfactory. These days, starting and deploying a new project involves a kitchen sink with a bazillion tools, languages and 3rd-party dependencies. And when something doesn't work the way you expect it to, it's a ton of work to find the needle in the haystack, with so many layers to understand, especially since they don't share any consistency whatsoever.