I was a web developer from about 2006-2023 and all I remember was decline and insecurity. For most of that the backend was Java and the Java people were deathly

I was a web developer from about 2006-2023 and all I remember was decline and insecurity. For most of that the backend was Java and the Java people were deathly afraid of JavaScript, not always but certainly more than 90%. The JavaScript people were afraid of everything. Insecurity was everywhere. I have since switched to enterprise API management and it has been great. I blame two things for the greatness: 1. Everybody has to obtain a certification, 2. It’s more operationally focused. Everything related to web development always felt like a race to the bottom. Almost nobody seemed competent to do the work and the goal was always delivery in the most minimal capability imaginable. There was a bright spot though. When I was the A/B test engineer for this major dot com life was great. I just built out experiments that defaced the production web site. There were many times the super hacky experiment code was less defective and executed faster than the real code that eventually rolled out to production.