I don't think it's useless, it's just not "web development". It's more "building the stack for the entirety of a company", but that's not web development, that

I don't think it's useless, it's just not "web development". It's more "building the stack for the entirety of a company", but that's not web development, that's building the stack for the entirety of a company (minus HR, minus some accounting). Filing everything a company does under web development feels a bit extreme. And if you don't, then this really isn't all that exciting, because building the software & hardware stack for a larger operation has never been a 10-minute-job. It seems to me that the confusion stems from the fact that it's now feasible for a single person to do all of this by themselves within a reasonable time. Not super quickly, not without some frustration about narrow docs, but it's not going to be impossible or take a decade. If we had a similar evolution in working with materials and a single person could build entire factories by themselves in 3 months, I'm sure we'd have similar complaints. But there are no complaints because no sane person thinks they can build a factory in 3 months by themselves.